Richard Stengel (Richard Allen Stengel) Quotes
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
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After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.
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My number one financial priority is security. Not having to worry about how I am going to meet the bills and not owing anybody anything. I keep my outgoings as low as possible and save as much as I can.
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
