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

• 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

• 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

• 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 wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • Stock

• I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Work
  • Home

• I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

  

  Betty Ford

• In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Writing
  • School
  • Friends

• Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • American

• I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Study
  • Competition

• Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Business
  • Stock

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

  

  Richie Havens
  • Business
  • Communications