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 don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
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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.
