Richie Havens Quotes

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Richie Havens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 21, 1941 - April 22, 2013

Topics

MusicTimePurposePeopleSinging

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

Jhonen Vasquez

HatePeopleMeBookBetterWrite

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa

ReligionCompositionLies

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

John Ridley

BeautifulSomethingEventHappens

I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

Spencer Boldman

GirlValentine's DayTimeRomantic

I wouldn't mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don't see any reason to change that.

Stan Lee

ChangeMindBlackWhiteWaySee

I believe if Mr. Obama is reelected, and Israel somehow is unable to interdict the Iranian nation from gaining nuclear weapons themselves, this administration unfortunately, I'm afraid, will allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and then pursue what they believe would be the traditional policy of containment.

Trent Franks

BelieveWillI BelieveNationAfraid

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Robert Trout

BestCreativityManPainSociety

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount, Jr.

MindHumanHuman MindMostSome

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

Jose Rodriguez

InformationGotUsLedEventually

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Joseph Lancaster

EducationPurposeFindPartySaid

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

Jonah Lomu

LifeMeEnergyMy LifeLookFind

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Aung San Suu Kyi

HopeI AmHappyPeopleBelieveNow

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