Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.
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“He who endures distress, will be granted joys; and he who bears with unpleasant things, will not be deprived of the pleasant.”
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You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.
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A light broke in upon my brain, -It was the carol of a bird;It ceased, and then it came again,The sweetest song ear ever heard.
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What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
