Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.
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I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
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Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.
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I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.
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I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.
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I, like anybody whoever met Eric Wright, was mesmerized & inspired. Eric was more like a big brother to me, to all of us. I always think to myself, if there was no Ruthless, West Coast hip hop would not have been as big.
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People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.
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A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.
