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 wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
