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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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps
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
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.
Kate Upton
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.
Kara Lindsay
I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
Valerie Bertinelli
China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
Adam Draper
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.
Logan Mankins
But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.
Barack Obama
You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.
Cain Velasquez
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
Jonathan Coe
If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.
Dave Douglas
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