Boots Riley Quotes

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

Boots Riley

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You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense.

Jhumpa Lahiri

PeopleWritingThinkFeelYouKnow

I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.

Andie MacDowell

WorkLoveHumorBestThinkGenius

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

John James Audubon

WorkNatureFailureGoodStyleBest

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Robert Musil

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Premier League is not an easy league; it's one of the best.

Son Heung-min

BestEasyLeaguePremier League

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.

Stewart Lee

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In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.

Mike Love

TravelSpiritualSpringRiverPeople

Got freedom? Thank a man, or rather, thank all the men willing to die so the rest of us can go fetal in our safe spaces if somebody hurts our feelings.

Milo Yiannopoulos

FreedomMenManRestDieFeelings

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Deborah Moggach

LifeLiveRootsSpeakYouDistance

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

Brad Feld

BetterWishHelpUnderstandMore

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms

SadLawTearsEnjoyPleasurePay

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Peter Davison

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