Richard Rogers Quotes
I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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I love my family.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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We're not just in the TV business anymore ... We're going to the table as a sports media company.
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Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
