Richard Stengel (Richard Allen Stengel) Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I try to win every tournament.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
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As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day.
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If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
