Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

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• I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Opposition

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Party
  • Saying

• The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • High
  • Political
  • Party

• I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Party
  • Win

• I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Party
  • Myself

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doesn't crack down, this party will be amazing - the biggest party in town for a long time. If they do crack down, a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Trying
  • Party

• We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Black
  • Party

• Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Party
  • Period

• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • Children
  • Party

• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. … Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years - I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  

  Al Gore
  • Children
  • May
  • Experience

• Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Party

• I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Party

• I don't judge anybody because I've been the one to party and look for the after party to begin! I have more fun now both when I DJ and in general.

  

  Curtis Jones
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Judge

• Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

  

  Kesha Rogers
  • Party
  • Texas

• I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.

  

  Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
  • Party
  • Band
  • Doe

• I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Help
  • Blessed

• One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

  

  Anthony Rizzo
  • Good
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Party
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