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 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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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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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 wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
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A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.
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I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.
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You can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today.
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The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
