J. August Richards Quotes
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.
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When I was a campaign worker, you would meet people who would want to vote but didn't have any money for postage. It happens more often than people think.
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We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.
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You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, 'Okay, cool. What's next?' You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, 'Yeah!'
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
