Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
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My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called that. They're always called 'sportswear' or 'high-end' or 'luxury.' I feel like I'm tossed into that streetwear category so that I don't exist in this space.
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I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.
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We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.
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Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
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When it's the same team that's created magic at the box office in the past, you know you are in safe hands.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
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I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.
