Raphael Saadiq Quotes
I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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I feel like with anything you choose to do in this world, there are always gonna be people who disagree. But I've had a lot more supporters than critics.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.
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It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...
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The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words.
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I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
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In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
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I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
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Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
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I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
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Always follow your own path.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
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I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.
