Little Richard Quotes
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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We have much work ahead, to stand still.
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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
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After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.
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My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day's good health - I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet.
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Everybody grows up.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
