Raphael Saadiq Quotes

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

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• Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Future
  • Energy

• The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Box

• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Time
  • Deep

• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Trump
  • Ask

• I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Love
  • Doing

• You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Always

• I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Meeting

• I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Like
  • English

• People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Children
  • Hope

• People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lies

• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Graduation

• He's tough-minded. He's got a tough, disciplined way of doing things. I know from going against him out here, it's extremely tough. You've got to be ready for a little of everything. It's a scheme I admire. You've got to have a lot of admiration for what they did last year. A new staff, third best in the league stat-wise, and we didn't do what we should do on offense to support him.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Support
  • Player
  • Wise

• When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Black

• I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • People
  • Play