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Richard Ramsden

Richard Ramsden

Quotes·Quotations by Richard Ramsden

Banking System

¶ You can construct a banking system in which no bank will ever fail, in which there's no leverage. But there would be a cost. There would be virtually no economic growth because there would be no credit creation.

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.

Quotes·Quotations by Richard Steele

Writing·Reading

¶ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Steele

Richard Braunstein

Richard Braunstein

Quotes·Quotation

Drinks·Drinking

¶ The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.

Richard Armour (1906-1989)

Richard Armour (1906-1989)

Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.

Quotes·Quotations by Richard Armour

Beauty

¶ Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin-skinned people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour

River Phoenix (1970-1993)

River Phoenix (1970-1993)

River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American film actor, musician, and activist. He was the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Summer Phoenix and Liberty Phoenix. Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers, the coming-of-age film Stand by Me, the action sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the independent adult drama My Own Private Idaho. Phoenix's meteoric rise to fame led to his status as a "teen sensation".[2]

Phoenix began acting at age 10 in television commercials. He appeared in diverse roles, making his first notable appearance in the 1986 film Stand by Me, a hugely popular coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. He was listed by John Willis as one of twelve promising new actors of 1986.

On October 31, 1993, Phoenix collapsed and died of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room.[3] At the time of his death, Phoenix had been in the middle of filming Dark Blood (1993).

Quotes·Quotations by River Phoenix

River Phoenix as Chris Chambers from Stand by Me (1986)

¶ Yeah, but you're gonna be stupid for the rest of your life.

References

[1]^ a b "Archives : The Rocky Mountain News". Nl.newsbank.com. 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2011-12-22.
[2]^ "Death of River Phoenix jolts the movie industry". The New York Times. November 2, 1993. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
[3]^ Remembering 1993 Gary Kirkland Gainesville Sun – December 26, 1993

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Phoenix

Renée Zellweger (1969- )

Renée Zellweger (1969- )

Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) (which she reprised in its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).

She has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a BAFTA Award, was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009, and established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses as of 2007.

Quotes·Quotations by Renée Zellweger

Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd from Jerry Maguire (1996)

¶ Stop! Just shut up. You had me at hello.. You had me at hello..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Zellweger

Ren Yingying (任盈盈)

Ren Yingying (任盈盈)

Ren Yingying (任盈盈) is Ren Woxing's daughter. Although she is intelligent and caring towards her subordinates, she can be ruthless and cold blooded at times. She meets Linghu Chong and falls in love with him after being attracted to his heroism. She succeeds her father as the cult's leader but later retires to lead a reclusive life with Linghu Chong.

Xu Qing as Ren Yingying from Laughing in the Wind (2001)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiling,_Proud_Wanderer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Smiling,_Proud_Wanderer_characters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_in_the_Wind

Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind)

Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind)

Rhett Butler is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.[1]

Quotes·Quotation by Rhett Butler

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind

¶ Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

¶ With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_Butler

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

Academia

@ The university, in a society ruled by public opinion, was to have been an island of intellectual freedom where all views were investigated without restriction. … But by consenting to play an active or “positive,” a participatory role in society, the university has become inundated and saturated with the backflow of society’s “problems.” Preoccupied with questions of Health, Sex, Race, War, academics make their reputations and their fortunes. … Any proposed reforms of liberal education which might bring the university into conflict with the whole of the U.S.A. are unthinkable. Increasingly, the people “inside” are identical in their appetites and motives with the people “outside” the university.
Saul Bellow, Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 18

Goodness

@ Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18935-1], p. 84

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow

Walt Stack (1908-1995)

Walt Stack (1908-1995)

Walt Stack (1908 – January 19, 1995) was a hod carrier by trade and an icon of the San Francisco, California, running community by popular acclaim. Stack ran approximately 62,000 miles (100,000 km) in his lifetime.[1] Even in his 70s and 80s, Stack ran many more marathons and 50-mile (80 km) ultramarathons than all but a few of his running peers.

Stack was featured in Nike's first "Just Do It" advertisement that debuted on July 1, 1988.[2]

Quotes·Quotations by Walt Stack

Advice

¶ Start slow and taper off.

References

[1]^ http://outsideonline.com/outside/magazine/0898/9808hardway.html
[2]^ http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/07/nikes_just_do_it_slogan_celebr.html

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