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.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Community
  • Doing
  • Theater

• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Great
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• I prefer doing feature films.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Doing
  • Films
  • Prefer

• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Man
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • Love
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Habits

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Best
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  • Start

• I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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  • Gym
  • Really

• Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

  

  Wayne Newton
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  • Together

• Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • School
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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.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Thinking
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • 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.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  John Hartford
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Stop

• I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even finish the video. And that's really sad, because maybe I'd like that song. I think that we don't give stuff a chance to really sink in.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Giving

• A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Country
  • Fate
  • Brave

• God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Exercise

• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

  

  Lisa See
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • She

• 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.

  

  Boots Riley
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