Raphael Saadiq Quotes

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

Raphael Saadiq

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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

• 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'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

• 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

• 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 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

• One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Work
  • Great

• I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • She
  • Daughter

• I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Inspiration
  • Writers

• That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

  

  Annalena McAfee

• I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Long
  • Family
  • Fun

• The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

  

  Ann Macbeth

• My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • School
  • Why
  • Parents

• I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

  

  Matt Reeves
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Anonymous

• It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Reality
  • Years
  • Hard

• The SAT is a scam.

  

  John Katzman

• The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

  

  Mark Leibovich

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

  

  Raphael Saadiq