Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I love working in New York.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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I was always a guy who wanted to be associated with a brand that meant something to me, something I was proud to be associated with... I always wanted sponsors that felt good to be associated with me as well.
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There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
