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Richard Thompson Quotes

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Richard Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: April 3, 1949

Topics

Alone Stand Up Guitar Stand Insanity

I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

Age Child Start You Unique Dressed

I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Good Discipline Believe Skill Human

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

Painting You Sunday Serious Never

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Book Color Serious Jazz Real Canvas

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

Romantic Comedy Movies Hill Like

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Time Fashion Surprise You Lesson

No matter what you're doing, live it. Make an experience. Have fun. Relate to someone. Take them in. Learn.

Live Experience Fun Have Fun Learn

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Nature Man Place Earth First

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Jordan Peterson

Women Power Men Control Powerful

I want to be competitive; I want to run all over - I want to win.

Win Want Run Over Competitive

Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.

Clemantine Wamariya

Past People Gender You Born Never

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Beauty Myself Happy Hair Win Trying

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