R. Price Quotes

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

I've met little meanness, wherever I went.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

I was running around with two guns on my waist like I was Larry Fishburne or something. I wasn't making no money, I was just running around with two guns like Larry Fishburne.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

Speculation is not knowledge.

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.

Never underestimate the Pricey.

I hate people like that...who have no pride in themselves.

I don't want nothing to do with y'all, I just stay home. I do drugs, lay around and take care of my family, that's it.

I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities.

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the middle of something and hear a commercial. I enjoy songs writing themselves.

I grew up being teased for being overweight.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

Behind any Strength lies a greater Love.

Eat food. Eat actual food. I try to not eat anything processed or sugar-free - I eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top

I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

I think brands should go back to being more specialised and focused on particular market segments. Sometimes the business you don’t do is more important than that which you actually do.