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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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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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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Life is God's art.
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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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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
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Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
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My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.
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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.