Raphael Saadiq Quotes

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

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• In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • American
  • Me
  • English

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Best

• Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Place
  • Patriotism

• I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Career
  • Singing

• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Travelling

• I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Relationship
  • Perfection

• I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Big

• Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Literature
  • Creation

• You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Start

• You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Time
  • Real

• You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

  

  Burt Shavitz

• 'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Thinking
  • Death

• I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

  

  Kristy McNichol
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Reading
  • Philosophy
  • Suicidal

• They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Together
  • Years

• The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  

  Pericles
  • Vision

• If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Black
  • Strong

• I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

  

  Raphael Saadiq