Richard Rainwater Quotes

Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'

Richard Rainwater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: June 15, 1944 - September 27, 2015

Topics

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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

John Breaux

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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

Joel Salatin

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There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

Ann Nocenti

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Everybody has their own style.

Ana Patricia Botin

StyleOwnEverybody

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

Tony Blair

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Sometimes, how I said already, I just wake up and play good. And sometimes I'm so tired.

Lukas Rosol

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We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.

Josh Hartnett

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You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.

Josh Mandel

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Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

Joseph Brodsky

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It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Debbie Reynolds

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I've always been very bold - some would say brash. I've always said very edgy, controversial statements.

Corey Stewart

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I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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