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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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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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 love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
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My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
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Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.
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Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
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You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
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I went to India, lived, and studied.
