Richard Thompson Quotes
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
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We are taking very drastic actions to reduce the risk of avian influenza to animals and birds.
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My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.
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I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
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You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others and to use the opportunities that I had had in my life to really turn that around and to make an impact and to carry forth some of the issues that I believe are important to the future of our society.
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If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?
