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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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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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
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I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.
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I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring.
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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.
