Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
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I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.
