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.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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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.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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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.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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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.
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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.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
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To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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George Burns was the father I never had.
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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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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.
