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.Chuck D
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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.
Larry Wilcox -
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.
Dan Aykroyd -
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?
J. M. Coetzee -
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
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.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton -
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett -
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth -
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono -
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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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.
Rain -
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.
Ian Mckellen -
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Quincy Jones -
Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
Ada Yonath -
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
Jack Black
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Have yee him on the hip.
John Heywood -
Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
David Talbot -
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
Chris Crutcher -
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
Andre Bazin -
And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
Janis Karpinski -
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
Chuck D