Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.
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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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People love stories. They need stories.
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I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
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Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
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I've been playing music since I was born.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
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If we are not represented, we are slaves.
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
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I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.
