Mark Richard famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
-- Mark Richard -
That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.
-- Mark Richard
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
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People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
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I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
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A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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