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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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
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If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
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Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it will be difficult to give the extra time, effort, and devotion it takes to be a success. If it is a career that you find fun and enjoyable, then you will do whatever it takes. You will give freely of your time and effort and you will not feel that you are making a sacrifice in order to be a success.
