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Right Quotes


"It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right."


"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."


"I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia."


"I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me."


"I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating."


"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."


"Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap."


"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good."


"Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you."


"The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team."


"I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet."


"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform."


"When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me."


"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"


"He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that."


"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."


"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."


"So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount."


"An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."


"If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated."


"I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it."


"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."


"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."


"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."


"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."


"I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington."


"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."


"It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right."


"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."


"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."


"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right."


"He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze."


"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."


"If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always."
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