Little Richard Quotes
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
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I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.
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I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
