Richard Thompson Quotes

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

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• I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Live
  • Nature

• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Humanity

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Culture
  • Mathematics
  • Belong

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Music
  • Things
  • Architecture

• I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sleep

• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Game
  • Defeat

• I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Challenges

• My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Down

• I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Done
  • Feet

• There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Service
  • Method
  • Riches

• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • City
  • Evil

• Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Wish
  • Sea
  • Difficult

• It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • God
  • Movement
  • Consciousness

• The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Path
  • Moment
  • Understand

• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Environment
  • Revolution
  • Achievement

• Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Athlete
  • Regardless
  • Injured

• I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Everybody
  • Regardless