Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes
Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
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Great businessmen are creators.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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I cry a lot because I miss people.
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Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.
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Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?
