Richard Thompson Quotes
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.Richard Thompson
Quotes to Explore
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
Ian Frazier -
I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
Taylor Hicks -
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
Dana Rohrabacher -
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Zedong -
I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
Earl Derr Biggers -
Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
Earl Monroe -
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie -
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
Ira Glass
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
Salman Rushdie -
In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
James Brown -
I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.
Angelina Jolie -
The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.
Christoph Martin Wieland -
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand -
I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.
Nancy Holder -
No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.
Lois Wyse -
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
Richard Thompson