Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
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You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
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In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
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Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
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Man keeps inventing things all the time.
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We made some progress in respect of draft texts but obviously not sufficient progress.
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When I lived in Las Vegas, I was meeting everybody: Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones - we won't go there - but all these people that were working in Vegas a million years ago, way before I was Elvira.
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You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high
