Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White -
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
Valorie Curry -
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner -
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett -
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
Omari Hardwick -
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay -
I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten -
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
Frances McDormand -
In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson -
There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
Usain Bolt -
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
Ward McAllister -
I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
Florence Henderson -
My best hair care tip would be, choose a range that is right for your hair structure. Working with Pantene has made me realize the importance of this, and it really does make a difference. I have quite thick hair, so I use the Smooth & Sleek range.
Victoria Pendleton
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I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.
Matthew Gray Gubler -
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
Little Richard -
There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
Philip Glass -
After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?
Tom Araya Slayer -
There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.
Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum -
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
Chuck D