Richard J. Needham Quotes

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Richard J. Needham

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide

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I don't know why so many people seem upset about the fact that Nev Schulman and I are so against Trump.

Max Joseph

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We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Tracy McMillan

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I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Robert Budi Hartono

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Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

Roger Moore

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Rejection and I are old friends.

Michaela Watkins

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I say most of my music is very trial-and-error.

Julia Holter

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My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she's looking down on me going, 'Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.'s son?'

Josh Henderson

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I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

Johnny Flynn

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The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Brian Skerry

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I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

Ariel Levy

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