Rick James Quotes

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Always
  • Marriage
  • Issue

• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Smile
  • Hands
  • Profound

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
  • Without

• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Getting
  • Getting Older

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Trying
  • You
  • Years

• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Trying
  • Success

• Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!

  

  Karen Civil
  • Success
  • Patience

• I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

  

  Keith Sweat
  • Up
  • Good

• I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

  

  Rick James
  • Live
  • Trying