Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes

You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high

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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.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Impossible

• People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Want
  • Changed

• For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Chance
  • Bigs

• 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.

  

  T. H. White
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Matter
  • Heard
  • Seen

• 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.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Youth

• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Life
  • Things
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • People
  • Wife
  • Bread

• 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.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Retirement
  • Surplus

• There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Man
  • Realize
  • Catalyst

• Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Violence
  • Honor
  • Rights

• I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Want
  • Rain
  • Walks

• Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Sometimes
  • Feels
  • Students

• I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Truth
  • Death

• I think it's possible to have the kind of career you really want if you want to. You just don't do the things you don't want to and you just have to be cool with waiting for something to come around that you really feel passionate for.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Passionate

• You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high

  

  Slick Rick
  • Masters
  • Walks