Boots Riley Quotes

We all - even at a base level, even a Republican - understand that the people with the money are the ones with the power. We all learn that.

Boots Riley

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PowerMoneyPeopleLearnUnderstand

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

Jesmyn Ward

CommunityPeopleClassPoorWrite

Obviously, the closer you get to that moment, the more you start to realize 'this is the last year of my contract.'

Johnathan Joseph

MomentStartYearYouMoreRealize

Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.

Stephen Merchant

WorkDoorsRememberYouI CanWrong

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

Stephenie Meyer

FunRock StarDrummerRockMuse

What I want people to take away from my music is that it's important to listen. Especially for young people, your opinion is the one that counts the most when it comes to your craft.

Sigrid

MusicPeopleOpinionImportantYoung

While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.

Mary Pilon

PastBaseballWorldAmericanLabor

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

Chris Daughtry

ThinkParentYouKnowWantMean

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

Chris Kattan

YouIndiaStagePretendingShooting

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Craig Brown

GreatMeLookingGolfYouHouse

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

YouBeliefMatterReactionWhatever

Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either.

Anushka Sharma

FitnessFashionYouFollowBlindly

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Alison Moyet

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