Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
Richie Havens
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
Olly Murs
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
Taylor Sheridan
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Cameron Russell
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
J. C. Watts
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By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
Kai Bird
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
Gary Ross
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Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
Jeffrey Sachs
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Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
Kathy Mattea
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
John McWhorter
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There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.
John M. Grunsfeld
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Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It's awesome, because I'm a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.
Lizzo
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Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.
Eva Longoria
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Songwriting is therapeutic for me.
Brantley Gilbert
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And now the solider toiled upward through an extremely steep ascent over rock outcroppings and ravines. At the top, they saw something few white men had ever seen: the preternaturally flat expanse of the high plains, covered only with short buffalo grass. 'As far as the eye could reach,' wrote Carter, 'not an object of any kind or living thing was in sight. It stretched out before us- one uninterrupted plain, only to be compared with the ocean in its vastness.' The scene was terrifying even for men with experience of the plains. 'This is a terrible country,' railroad worker Arthur Ferguson had written a few years earlier, 'the stillness, wildness, and desolation of which is awful... Not a tree to be seen... and it seemed as if the solitude had been eternal.
S. C. Gwynne
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I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.
Enrique Penalosa
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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
Richie Havens
