Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes

'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

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• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

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• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

  

  Baltasar Garzon
  • People
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• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

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• Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

  

  Arthur Erickson
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• I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
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• We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them.

  

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• I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

  

  Burt Bacharach
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• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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• 'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Music
  • Important
  • Song