Little Richard Quotes
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.
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On the September 11 attacks: 'In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.'
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They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
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It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
