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.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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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.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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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.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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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.
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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.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.
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I'm action-oriented.
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I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
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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.
