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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Take

• A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?

  

  Captain Beefheart

• Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Different
  • Dating

• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Disney

• Laughter—one of the most precious of God’s gifts; the very salt, the very light, the very fresh air of life; the divine disinfectant, the heavenly purge. Could one ever be real friends with somebody one didn’t laugh with? Of course one couldn’t.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Friends
  • Laughter
  • Fresh Air

• Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Life
  • Long
  • She

• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • High
  • Space
  • Hand

• 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.