DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
Irwin Thomas -
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde -
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver -
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
Ville Valo HIM -
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson -
It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
Samira Wiley
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
Sam Hunt -
I like music a lot.
Usain Bolt -
We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
Edgar Ramirez -
I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
Oliver North -
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
Gary Zukav -
There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
Ted Knight
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
Barry Jenkins -
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
Gary Larson -
That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
Walker Stapleton -
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
J. Philippe Rushton -
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
Laura Dern -
I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
Magic Johnson
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
Ted Stevens -
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
Buddy Rice -
I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.
Art Spiegelman -
I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.
DMX