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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #earth #hero #profession

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#core #departments #experience #get #government

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#credible #documents #else #got #heaven

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fault #faultless #find #much #others

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#care #cared #doing #going #i

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#american films #being #big #career #exciting

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#building #bush #cheque #cost #donated

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#fiction #freedom #houses #i #newspapers

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#i #just #loved #music #necessarily

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#before #i #mountaintop #prior #removal