Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Adam Hamilton -
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A. -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
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I love doing every role I do!
Malcolm McDowell -
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard -
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
Kailash Satyarthi -
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
Dan Pink -
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
Aaron Sorkin -
The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.
Samantha Cameron
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My parents were hippies.
Rachel Kushner -
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
Bear Grylls -
Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
Rand Paul -
On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'
Samuel Larsen -
I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
Lance Henriksen -
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
Barbara Stanwyck
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We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
Bonnie Raitt -
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Jon Meacham -
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.
Carter G. Woodson -
I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
Zach Anner -
I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?
Bobby Cannavale -
In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.
Boots Riley