Alex Riley Quotes

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

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• Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Picture
  • Look
  • Race

• I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

  

  Little Richard
  • Gentleman
  • Much

• The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Work
  • Lives
  • Tragic

• I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Travel

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

• I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Experience
  • College

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  

  William Cowper
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Trying
  • Design
  • Goal

• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Style

• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  

  George Washington
  • Justice
  • Mankind
  • Liberal

• Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Existence
  • Boredom
  • Fog

• Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • People
  • Communication
  • Message

• My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • People
  • Kind
  • Feelings

• I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Machines
  • Narrators

• What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

  

  Gary Marcus
  • Mind
  • Machines
  • Upload

• I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Machines
  • Planes