Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.
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We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.
