Riki Lindhome Quotes
The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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Sarcasm doesn't grow on the same stalk as humility.
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The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.
