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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Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
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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.
