Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
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I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.
