Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

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• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Talk

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • People
  • Work
  • Crazy

• I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Movement

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Old

• I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Career
  • Team
  • Player

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • People
  • Experience
  • You

• God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • God
  • Perfect

• It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Passion
  • Communication

• The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Business
  • Truth

• Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • Why
  • Respect
  • April

• I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

  

  Ken Follett
  • People
  • Words

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Oil
  • Electricity

• Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

  

  Richie Havens
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Dancing