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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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.
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There are no secrets.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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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.
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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."
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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.
