Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side.
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
