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.
Rob Zombie -
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
Thomas Hobbes -
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.
Anthony Zerbe -
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.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
A man has a right to want to live.
Dalia Sofer
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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.
Josh Gordon -
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Terence McKenna -
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Anybody can get hit over the head.
Aristotle -
I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.
Ryan Adams -
I want to go out on my terms.
Misty May-Treanor
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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.
Malala Yousafzai -
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.
Teresa Medeiros -
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.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
Ari Up -
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
Michael Caine -
This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.
Richard Schickel