Derek Luke Quotes
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.
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I was a horrible student.
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I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
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Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."
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I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
