Richard Thompson Quotes
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new?
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
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A map shows maybes.
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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
