Deke Richards Quotes
I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.
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The destruction of the atom the split of it, in modern physics seemed to me to be the same as the destruction of the world.. ..science to me appeared to be dead: its most important basis was only a lunacy, a mistake perpetrated by learned men.. ..who blindly mistook one object for another.
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Art class was my safe haven.
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.
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I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.
