DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Allen Townes) Quotes
So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
