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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You have to develop a very thick skin.
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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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I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.
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In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter can no longer find enough new investors to pay off the people who have already put up money, and the scheme collapses.
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I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
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When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.
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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
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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.
