Rickey Medlocke Quotes
Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
