Daniel Dewan Sewell (Danny Brown) Quotes
I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I don't think a song should be put in a category.
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People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.
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I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.
