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Boots Riley Quotes

One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.

Boots Riley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1971

Topics

Work Time People Me Someone Know

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

Jo Brand

People You Within Behave Expect Get

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Jennifer Pahlka

Work Government Bureaucracy Way Idea

Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.

John Grogan

Peace Feel Humanity Earth Living

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

John Kasich

Job Common Sense You Creating Know

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn't something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn't gonna let that happen.

Angelina Jolie

Woman Husband Feel Happen Side Knew

Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.

Sukarno

Food People World Stop Abundance Up

The question people ask me all the time is, 'How was it playing a gay character? How was it pretending to love a man?' And I don't mean to be abrasive, but that's just the stupidest question in the world to me. To assume there is a difference is ignorance. You're born a certain way. I was born loving women. I could have been born loving men.

Trevante Rhodes

Love Women Character Time Ignorance

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

Tom Scholz

Work Live Fun Chance Moments Hard

The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket.

Jon Lovitz

Time Comedy Year Bad Three My Own

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

Donald Pleasence

You Circus Bear Tell Things Get

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Constance Marie

Family Love Hate People Me Push

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

Corey Stoll

Work Art World Political Doing New