Little Richard Quotes
I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.
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I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.
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You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy.
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Thelma '...You make your own punishments in life, I honest to God believe that. You get exactly what you deserve. God sees to it.'
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Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.
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I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.
