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 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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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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There's no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I'm the most athletic heavyweight in the division.
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
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Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
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Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
