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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To meet an artist when they first start out is like having a seat on the 50-yard line and watching them get a touchdown... The Weeknd, Pink, Harry Styles, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, Kesha - these are all artists I interviewed back before anyone knew who they were. To watch them turn into these superstars is just amazing.
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
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Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.
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Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
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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.
