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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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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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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I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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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.
