Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

Slick Rick

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• We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Always

• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• I love Costco.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Costco

• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Mom

• I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Grateful

• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Singing
  • Makeup
  • Costume

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• We'll be raising our hands  Shining up to the sky  Cause we've got the fire fire fire  And we gonna let it burn

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Sky

• Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

  

  Azar Nafisi

• As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Culture

• I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Important
  • Women
  • True

• The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Father

• I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Thinking
  • Character

• In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Alone

• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Wise

• A lot of French comedy is satire.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Comedy

• The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

  

  William Glasser
  • Day

• People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Thinking
  • Person
  • Conceit