Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Think and grow rich.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.
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I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
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The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
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The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
