Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
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Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.
