Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
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I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.
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The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.
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In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
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Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.
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I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
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It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.
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We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.
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People were soon talking only of my bons mots, and they esteemed my wit so highly that the clergy was forced to publish a decree that forbade anyone to believe I was capable of reason, and it expressly commanded everyone of all ranks to believe - no matter how intelligently I might act - that I was guided by instinct.
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As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.
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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
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I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
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I just make music based on what I believe.
