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.
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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.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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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.
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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.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
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When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
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I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
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Gorgeous exfoliants are expensive.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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I've been riding Valegro since he was four or five years old.
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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.
