Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes

I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Security

• Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Moving

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Job

• It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Hurt

• There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Brave

• I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

  

  Chuck D
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Song