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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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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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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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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The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.
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After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
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With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
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All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.
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I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.
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The Big 4 tour was really great.
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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.
