Rickey Medlocke Quotes
You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
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High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
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High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.
