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.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
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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.

  

  Carlene Carter
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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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• 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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• 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
  • Rest
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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
  • Time
  • Writing
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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
  • Time
  • Think
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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
  • Business
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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
  • Actor
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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.

  

  FKA twigs
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• Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Live
  • House
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• I've always been a reader and a writer.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Always
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• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
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• The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
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  • Special

• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Play

• Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

  

  G-Dragon
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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