Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.Richie Havens
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
Tammy Bruce -
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Garry Kasparov -
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
Jack Ma -
I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
Dana Davis -
Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
Patrick Swayze -
If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
Cameron Diaz -
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
Ben Harper -
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
Alexander McQueen -
I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
William Shakespeare
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The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.
Adolf Hitler -
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
You got amphetamine eyes.
Rod Stewart -
I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
Michael Caine -
I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
Randy Travis -
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
Cesare Pavese
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The British have always made terrible parents.
Rachel Cusk -
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
Richie Havens