Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
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We're going to give this a shot, and a shot is not one day.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.
