Little Richard Quotes
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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It is clear to me that under the right conditions, future technologies will be created that we cannot even imagine.
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When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T.V. He's just so full on, and he's got the ladies' man thing, which isn't necessarily something that would resonate with me.
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
