Robert James Ritchi (Kid Rock) Quotes
I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.
Quotes to Explore
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
-
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
-
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
-
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
-
The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
-
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
-
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
-
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
-
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
-
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
-
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
-
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
-
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
-
Police can only act on intelligence.
-
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-
Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.
-
You can't base your life off waking up every morning, like, 'What are people saying about me now?' Then I'd never stay in my creative headspace.
-
You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
-
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
-
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
-
I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.
