Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
-
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
-
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
-
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
-
I know what poverty is.
-
I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
-
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
-
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
-
I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
-
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
-
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
-
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
-
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
-
I enjoy money.
-
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
-
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
-
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
-
The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. The genius of the Führer and his determination not to shun even a world war have again won victory without the use of force. The hope remains that the incredulous, the weak and the doubters have been converted and will remain that way.
-
We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.
-
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
-
We love to play. We're good at what we do.
-
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
-
I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.
-
People give out compliments because it's polite.
