Boots Riley Quotes

If the only time you bang the drum is when it's time to get someone elected, and you don't get involved in a mass movement, then you're working against real and substantive change.

Boots Riley

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ChangeTimeSomeoneYouMovement

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

Jim James

GuitarAlwaysSomeHadCeremonyLa

If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.

Andrew Yang

GratefulLongPhoneThreeNeedDays

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

John J. McLaughlin

PowerExperienceSexMoreIntense

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

Steve Jones

BusinessMusicGuitarPlayMean

People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.

Mike Love

CreativityPeopleSayPeople SayOwn

In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.

Michael Spence

GrowthInvestmentDoubleProductivity

In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.

Louise Wilson

KnowledgePastYouOverIn The Past

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Jay Kay

LifeRespectYourselfYouWayMore

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

Jon Batiste

FamilyMemoryBandStageScared

Gujarat is developed because of its people; everyone has participated in the development process.

Dinsha Patel

PeopleProcessDevelopmentEveryone

Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.

Doc Hastings

PeopleThoughtsLovedLostLondon

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

HeartSimpleEyeNowSecretSee

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