Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.
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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
