Richard Schickel Quotes
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People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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I am too young and I've loved you too much.
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That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.
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If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.
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A man has a right to want to live.
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I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
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Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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Anybody can get hit over the head.
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I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.
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I want to go out on my terms.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.
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What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.
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For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
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This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.
