Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I am a big music nerd.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Florida doesn't need an immigration law.
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
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When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
