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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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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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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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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Waiting for the miracleThere's nothing left to do.I haven't been this happysince the end of World War II.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.
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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.
