Richard Li Quotes
I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
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I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
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When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.
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I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.
