Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Chuck D

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• Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • History

• We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Only
  • Cookbook

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Band

• I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Think
  • Hand

• Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Difficult

• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Single
  • Flower
  • Envy

• It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Life
  • Book
  • Story

• Place a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

  

  African Spir
  • Meaning
  • Top
  • Spiter

• I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

  

  Chris Froome
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Trouble
  • Communicate

• Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Music
  • Art