Prince Quotes

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality...

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Change
  • Personality

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• Mindy is just one of those people... she's just got a hell of a life going for herself. She's just really interesting and interested in the world and the larger things.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Before

• My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Good
  • Children
  • Friends

• There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Time

• I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Free
  • Control

• Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?

  

  Orson Scott Card

• What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Present

• The brain speculates but the heart knows.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Heart
  • Brain

• My father raised us like... we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, 'Oh that fat person, or this person,' he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren't allowed to look at people like that.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Father

• Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Up
  • True
  • Society

• I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • God
  • Pride

• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Country

• I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

  

  Kerry Washington

• I feel like our fans identify with us because they're like, 'I'm her,' or 'I don't look like any of them, but I'm different like them.'

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Different

• Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People
  • Listening

• Most startups flame out or just muddle along. Your chances of spotting a unicorn, pre-horn, are incalculably small. But if, knowing that, you still want to toss aside your cushy job, at least listen to corporate vets who have made the transition.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Job
  • Small
  • Unicorn

• Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.

  

  George Duke
  • Society
  • Reflection
  • Musicians

• I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality...

  

  Prince