Rickey Medlocke Quotes
All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.
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All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.
