Rick Larsen Quotes
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
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I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.
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In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?
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I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
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Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.