Geoff Rickly Quotes
I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
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Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
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If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
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We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
