Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.Boots Riley
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant -
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott -
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein -
I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
Marat Safin -
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove -
I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
La'Porsha Renae
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
Tamsin Egerton -
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Harold Pinter -
I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
Forest Whitaker -
The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
Vanessa Brown -
The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
Kailash Kher
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For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn't be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn't want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.
Gal Gadot -
It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
Utah Phillips -
I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
Kamala Harris -
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e. e. cummings -
Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
Imran Amed -
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
Iggy Pop -
I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.
Jonathan Van Ness -
I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.
Nell Scovell -
We can always find creative ways to do things.
Leigh Steinberg -
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.
Boots Riley