Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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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.
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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.
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I know what poverty is.
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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.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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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.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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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.
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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.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I enjoy money.
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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.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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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.
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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.
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I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.
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Become a fixer, not just a fixture.
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Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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People give out compliments because it's polite.
