Ricki-Lee Coulter Quotes
I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been ready for this crazy business at 8 years old.
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.
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Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
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I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'
