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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I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
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What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
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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.
