Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

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• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • House
  • Like
  • Disney

• When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Rock

• These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wall

• There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Good
  • Common
  • Core

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Know
  • College
  • Questions

• Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Future
  • Past
  • Imagination

• It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • God
  • Help
  • Soul

• I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Life
  • Missing

• I'm always eager to work with people I admire, people who have experience, who've made mistakes and made great things. That's the greatest teaching I could ever get in developing my own career.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Trying
  • Position
  • Fascinating

• I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Home
  • Go

• Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

  

  Joel Benenson
  • Perspective

• I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.

  

  Chick Willis
  • Bones
  • Shaking

• What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

  

  Boots Riley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change