J. August Richards Quotes
Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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I try to make fun of everyone as often as possible, especially minorities.
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I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
