Richard Stanley Quotes
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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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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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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 was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.
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From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.
