Rick James Quotes
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
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I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
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I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
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I'm proud to have earned a 100 percent score from Planned Parenthood and to have been previously endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro Choice.
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I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.
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I went to India, lived, and studied.
