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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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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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.
