H. Rap Brown Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
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I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.
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The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
