Boots Riley Quotes

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

Boots Riley

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There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot.

Joe Frazier

HeartManToolsStrongerYouBody

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Andrew Weil

HappinessJoyFeelingsGenuineOften

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Jeff Bridges

AwardYouKindHeelsSeasonYour

From our experiences with the site in Japan, we've come to ask, 'What can we learn about syndicating content from mobile devices and getting it up on YouTube?'

Steve Chen

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To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

Steven Rattner

ImpactAmericanSecurityPriceStop

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

Michelle Obama

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I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.

Lucas Till

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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

Clare Short

TimeLawRestEnvironmentPoverty

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

Bruce Rauner

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I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Brunello Cucinelli

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Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

Winona LaDuke

GoodMyselfTreePeopleFeel Good

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