Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Life is God's art.
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There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.
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Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
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At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.
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If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.
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I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
