David Lange Quotes
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
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They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.
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Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane!
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You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
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I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.
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I have huge respect for Nicola Sturgeon and for the SNP.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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...an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.
