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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There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
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A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
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If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.
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Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
