Boots Riley Quotes

The things you have to do to be effective - like forming a union at a fast food joint or a telemarketing company - aren't going to work unless you do things like solidarity strikes. Solidarity strikes are illegal. They've been illegal since the '40s, and they were made illegal because they work.

Boots Riley

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WorkFoodYouFastSolidarityGoing

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

Jill Sobule

WomanMeSongHellWantWhatever

I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.

Jerry Della Femina

ArtDayMeWritingStartPicture

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

Matthew Macfadyen

UnderstandBritishSomeAboutSnobby

We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies.

Tom Cotton

SecurityResponsibleAlliesOur

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Robert Anthony

BetterMoreGetWorseLikeOlder

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

Robert Zoellick

IdeasChallengesWorldThinkingNew

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Mickey Spillane

NameHouseNamesHighLevelStarted

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Michael Keaton

WomenLovingGoWhoGuysAbout

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

Jon Gruden

PracticePrideTakeUsedLot

Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.

Douglas Trumbull

MoviesHandUsedBecauseSecond

I don't get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it's more natural.

Denis Shapovalov

NowNervousMoreFirstLittleGet

I like to design funky things, and I love to mix prints and patterns together.

Ashley Nell Tipton

LoveTogetherDesignPatternsThings

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