Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
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I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
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I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
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I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
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The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.
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I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.
