Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• I do get around. Geographically, that is.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Get
  • Around

• As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Life
  • World
  • Think

• Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Humanity
  • Risk

• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.

  

  Sally Ride
  • High
  • Earth
  • Space

• The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Alone

• The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. The ideal solution would be the suppression of each of these individuals as soon as he has proven himself to be dangerous.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Taken
  • German

• There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

  

  Bill Gates

• The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Important
  • Mistake

• I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Mind

• I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Writing

• While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

  

  Jeff Bennett

• A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Strong
  • Smart

• What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Simple

• I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Money
  • Friends
  • New Friends

• Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Money
  • Why
  • Produce

• The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

  

  Demosthenes
  • Men
  • War
  • Fighting

• Let me tell you 'bout a place a omewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay, twistin' the night away...Here they have a lot of fun, puttin' trouble on the run. Man, you find the old and young, twistin' the night away. They're twistin', twistin' everybody's feelin' great. They're twistin', twistin', they're twistin' the night away.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Place

• Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.

  

  Slick Rick
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