Keith Matthew Thornton (Kool Keith) Quotes
I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I was a horrible student.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
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I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.
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The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
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One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.
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I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.
