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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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
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When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.
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But to say that you don’t like that kind of music just because it IS that kind of music is silly. It’s a very big issue, a big controversy amongst jazz critics.
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From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.
