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 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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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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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
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It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.
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It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
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I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.
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If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.
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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.
