Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.
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But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.
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To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.
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I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
