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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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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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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I have a tremendous support from a lot of the Underground fans. They believe in me, they want to see me do well, and they're behind me. But there are a lot of people out there who don't believe it, and so I want to separate perception and reality. I want to be able to do that.
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Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
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I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.
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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.
