Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

Richie Havens

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Need
  • Something
  • Sell

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Love
  • Plan
  • Countries

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Small
  • Difficult
  • Big

• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Career
  • College
  • Model

• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Poor
  • Poet
  • Only

• What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Father
  • Want
  • Working

• I can't stand recipes that don't have background.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Stand
  • Background
  • Recipes

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friends
  • High
  • Health

• My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Father
  • Game
  • Gambling

• There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Forever

• I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Hope

• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Evil
  • Meant To Be

• The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

  

  Donald Luskin
  • Work
  • Question
  • Management

• Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

  

  Leon Jouhaux
  • Thoughts
  • Service
  • Organization

• The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

  

  John Ashcroft

• Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Business
  • Strong

• I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Business
  • Communications