Richard Stengel (Richard Allen Stengel) Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.
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That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
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The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
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At that time they said I was crazy because I wanted to make a movie that was 14 or 16 hours. But now people do it. There are three-'Hobbit 1,' 'Hobbit 2,' 'Hobbit 3.' Everything I wanted to do is possible to do today.
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People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
