Christopher Ricks Quotes
Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
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A measure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind from the foundation of our free government to the present day.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
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Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
