All Quotes

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.
‐‐ Keith Sweat

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
‐‐ Babyface

R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People' - that's probably one of my favourite records - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' - that's some record - Crowded House's 'Together Alone' - that's brilliant, fantastic record.
‐‐ Jamie Lawson

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
‐‐ Sam Raimi

R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
‐‐ R. Kelly

R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
‐‐ R. Kelly

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.
‐‐ Jeremih

R-rated comedies make as much money as PG-13. And I think the audiences wanna be shocked. Especially with comedy.
‐‐ Nicholas Stoller

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.
‐‐ Ariel Pink

'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
‐‐ Ephraim Mirvis

Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited going up on the Temple Mount. And now there is a minority group of rabbis encouraging Jews to go.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
‐‐ Julie Mehretu

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
‐‐ Majora Carter

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
‐‐ Judith Butler

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
‐‐ Ursula Burns

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
‐‐ James Lankford

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
‐‐ James Lankford

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.
‐‐ Tony Stewart

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

Race differences show up early in life.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
‐‐ Orson Welles

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
‐‐ Lee Westwood

Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.
‐‐ Mitch Landrieu

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
‐‐ Thylias Moss

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.
‐‐ Jonathan Coleman

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

Race is still real and you got to recognize it.
‐‐ Yelawolf

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
‐‐ Nate Silver

Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.
‐‐ Jonathan Coleman

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
‐‐ Francis J. Grimke

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
‐‐ Bebe Moore Campbell

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.
‐‐ Monica Raymund

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed that there is subtle race, and there is sophisticated race, and there's evident and observable race.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
‐‐ Bob Cousy

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
‐‐ Beah Richards

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.
‐‐ David Rudisha

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
‐‐ Bill Buford

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
‐‐ Matt Bellamy