R- THE DON Quotes

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Pain is just another form of information.

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

My main success was an attitude. Always an attitude.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.