Richard Marx Quotes

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Richard Marx

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Sometimes
  • Story
  • News

• But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Earth
  • Living
  • Face

• I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Long
  • Red
  • Shoes

• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Age
  • Goal

• According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • World
  • Taxes

• People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Death
  • Dying

• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wisdom
  • Expect
  • Others

• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Mind
  • Want
  • End

• I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Friends
  • City

• When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Weird

• When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

  

  Jonathan Banks
  • Work
  • Best
  • Set

• Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

  

  Amrita Pritam
  • Truth
  • Empty
  • Falsehood

• When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

  

  Richard Marx