Richard Stanley Quotes
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
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I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
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From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.
