Lamman Rucker Quotes

I still play ball competitively because it helps keep me stay in shape.

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• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Democracy
  • Road
  • Socialism

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Think
  • Years
  • Reputation

• I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Reach

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• The Dutch are a very practical people.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Practical
  • Dutch

• I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Literature

• There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• Ru Paul knew details of the 'Burnett Show' that even surprised me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Show
  • Details

• People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Happen
  • Grudges

• I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Kind
  • Try
  • Possible

• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Grief

• If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Home
  • Political
  • Mom

• A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Society
  • Wonder
  • Appreciation

• As a kid, I imagined being an artist.

  

  Elizabeth Diller

• Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

  

  Keke Palmer

• The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there’s certain moments where that really cuts through.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Job
  • Moments
  • Humanity

• I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

  

  John Lloyd
  • Money

• The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

  

  Richard Schickel
  • Perspective
  • Pushes
  • Unintended

• I still play ball competitively because it helps keep me stay in shape.

  

  Lamman Rucker