H. Rap Brown Quotes
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I am a very selfish person.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
