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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I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.
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I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
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I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
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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.
