Mohandas Dewese (Kool Moe Dee) Quotes
I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.
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Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
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I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
