Lamman Rucker Quotes
'Why Did I Get Married?' did so well because it gave some real perspective on the realities of love.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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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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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
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I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.
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The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.
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'Why Did I Get Married?' did so well because it gave some real perspective on the realities of love.
