Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
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... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
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Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.
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Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.
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A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.
