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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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
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 personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
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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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We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
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Security is an underlining interest of Israel.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
