Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.
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And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
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I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very small party, too, on a boat, and I totally fanned out. I told her that I loved her, and wasn't cool at all.
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If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
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La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.
