Geoff Rickly Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.
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We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
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I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.
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[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
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Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
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First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
