Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.
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I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
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Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
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The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent - all depending on who wields it and how.
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Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
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I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.
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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
