T.A. Richards Quotes

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

World change comes from within.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

It's good to be anywhere.

Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

I didn't want just any career, so I am not going to be just any nurse.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.

I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.

The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

To keep my head healthy, [I'm] trying to meditate every morning, which is something I'm sort of getting into more, realizing that it's really positive to do every day.

I've got dyslexia. When I was in school, it wasn't really recognized as much as it is today; I'm really glad that people are a lot more aware of it now.

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.

Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm fine. Once we get talking I have a great time but not in the beginning.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Sachin is cricket's God.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

July does not a November election make.

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'