Rickey Medlocke Quotes
Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
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On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.
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I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they had at the time, just trying not to starve to death. It's the kind of suit that is worn in the rain and shrinks on the body and becomes a second skin, which is different than someone who willfully dropped out.
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You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.
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We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of the strength and security of a successful society.
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Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question; today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking. But I didn’t really believe, I only asked.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.
