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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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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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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I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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Most people know my music but will never read my books.
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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.
