Little Richard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.
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I'm a royal pain in the behind.
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Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.
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I don't wear makeup when I'm home. I love taking a break from it.
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No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
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I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
