Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
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They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
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Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
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My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
