Slick Rick (Richard Martin Lloyd Walters) Quotes
When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.
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Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;We tremble like wind-blown grass.
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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.
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This game is something Australians really look forward to.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
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Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.
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'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition.
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I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
