Adam Rickitt Quotes
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.
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I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.
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It was in 1915 the old world ended.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Remember that your bird should have no other model than the bat, because its membranes serve as an armour or rather as a means of building together the pieces of its armour, that is the framework of the wings.
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
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That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.
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Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.
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I always wanted to act.
