Robert James Ritchi (Kid Rock) Quotes
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.
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I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.
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I am very much into the paranormal.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
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A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.
