Little Richard Quotes

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

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• I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• There's not a blueprint for me to follow.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Follow
  • Blueprint

• When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Accepted
  • Theaters

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • End
  • Part

• My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Arms
  • Open
  • Accepted

• No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Accepted
  • Catastrophe
  • Rebellious

• I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Regret

• I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Believe
  • Marriage

• I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

  

  David Amram
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Guided

• I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • God
  • Guided
  • Obedient

• People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

  

  Ken Follett
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • People
  • Laughter

• Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Change
  • Things
  • Resistance

• I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

  

  Jamey Johnson
  • People

• I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Political
  • Moments
  • Struggle

• I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth satellites, supersonic flight, and now this. It's not so much who invents them. It's the fact they exist. … Everything's going so fast, I'm just not ready to take it all in. It's, it's all so quick

  

  James Clavell
  • Age
  • Earth

• Beware of, Had I wist.

  

  John Heywood

• I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Kind
  • Accepted
  • Songwriters

• When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • History
  • Accepted
  • Heroic

• Today, the gay and lesbian people are accepted. Their families are welcome in the units where they serve. This is not so for transgender people in any way. But, nevertheless, it could be.

  

  Allyson Robinson
  • Gay
  • Families
  • Accepted

• Spring came down hard that year. And I do mean hard, like the fist of some drunken pike poker with too much fury and not enough ale, whose wife just left him for some wandering minstrel and whose commanding officer absconded with his pay.

  

  Alex Bledsoe
  • Spring
  • Hard
  • Year

• I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

  

  Little Richard
  • Accepted
  • Guided
  • Blueprint