Richard Roundtree Quotes
I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
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I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.
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To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
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America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.
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I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
