Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

Boots Riley

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• Song
• Craftsmanship

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

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• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

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• China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.

  

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• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

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• This is near enough true bliss.

  

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• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

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• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

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• You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

  

  James Cameron
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• Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

  

  Charles Bukowski
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• If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

  

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• Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves.

  

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• Don't make jokes about food.

  

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• Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.

  

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• I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

  

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• If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

  

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• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  

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• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  

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• Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they're still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that's great!

  

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• Go home. Let me do my community service.

  

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• Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

  

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• I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song