Rico Love (Richard Preston Butler, Jr.) Quotes
It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.

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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
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Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
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You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
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This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.
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You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?
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It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.