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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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.
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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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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
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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.
