Marc Rich Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
-
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
-
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
-
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
-
I love recording music.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
-
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
-
I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
-
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
-
I have reservations about everything I do.
-
Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
-
I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
-
For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
-
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
-
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
-
I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
-
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
-
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
-
It's not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.
-
I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.
-
Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.
-
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
-
If you are too proud, you don't do business.
