Bootsy Collins Quotes

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

Bootsy Collins

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• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Me
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• There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Cancer
  • Social
  • Now

• A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Done
  • Want

• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Tradition

• For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Reason

• I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nas
  • Sound
  • Grind
  • Adapt

• We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return … The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation … the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • History
  • Past
  • Childhood

• The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. In this spirit, the stock market is one of the most attractive things imaginable. Stock-market data is abundant so I can check everything. Financial markets are very influential and I want to be part of this field now that it is maturing.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • Up
  • Night
  • Rest

• All as before: against the dining-room windows Beats the scattered windswept snow, And I have not changed either, But a man came to me. I asked: 'What do you want?' He replied: 'To be with you in Hell.' I laughed: 'Oh, you'll foredoom Us both to disaster.'

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Snow

• Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Evil
  • Marketing

• Babies are wonderful, important things. Having kids, even the thought of having kids, is a big emotional deal. But sometimes it can cause people to change their financial plans and directions.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Caring

• My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

  

  Claude Nicollier

• I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

  

  Keala Settle

• Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

  

  Bootsy Collins