Richard Schiff Quotes
I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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I know about raising money.
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In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
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Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
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I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.
