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.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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I always put my boxing first.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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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.
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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.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
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Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
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Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've always been.
