Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes

Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've always been.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I always put my boxing first.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • First
  • Boxing

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• I don't believe that competitions are important.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Believe
  • Important

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Story
  • First
  • Seven

• I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Flag

• I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Think
  • Agenda

• Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Unknown

• I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • School
  • Education
  • Smart

• I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

  

  Zendaya
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Star

• You have to develop a very thick skin.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • You
  • Skin
  • Thick Skin

• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Small
  • Attention
  • California

• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Treat

• Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Home
  • City

• I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

  

  Mordecai Brown
  • Control
  • Record
  • Errors

• It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reunited our family, so it was beautiful to me, ... Faith, hard work and the kindness of new friends carried my family forward and made it possible for me to become the first Asian-Pacific-American woman to serve in the Cabinet of a president of the United States.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding is achieved, especially between writer and reader. It's miraculous.

  

  Ken Liu
  • True
  • Moments
  • Understanding

• Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've always been.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.