Marcel Theo Hall (Biz Markie) Quotes
I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers - that's my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it.

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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
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I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers - that's my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it.