Rick James Quotes
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I am a big music nerd.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
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I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.
