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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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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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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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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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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After having explained this division, I contend that no intelligent person can assume that any of the actions of God can be vain, purposeless, or unimportant. According to our view and the view of all that follow the Law of Moses, all actions of God are 'exceedingly good.'
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Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.
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Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.
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We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
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Art is the daughter of freedom.
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Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty. So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.
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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.
