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.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul
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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.
Kate Upton
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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.
V. S. Naipaul
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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.
Zac Brown Band
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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?'
Laura Kightlinger
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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.
Karl Barth
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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.
Sam Graves
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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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.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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.
Natalie Babbitt
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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.
B. B. King
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly
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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!
Randy West
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
Ursula Andress
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I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.
Carl Paladino
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I was a horrible student.
Adam Carolla
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
James Branch Cabell
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There are no secrets.
John McAfee
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em, And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em. I'm the best takin' out all rookies, So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.
LL Cool J
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"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."
Kanye West
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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.
Derek Luke