Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.
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It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
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I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
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I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.
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My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.
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Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.
