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.
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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.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I love doing every role I do!
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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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.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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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.
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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.
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My parents were hippies.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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Genius is never understood in its own time.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.
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We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
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I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?
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In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.
