Rickey Henderson Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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Love is just chemistry.
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The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
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I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.
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When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.
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I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.
