Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
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If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
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I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
