DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

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• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Up
  • Control
  • Audience

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Never

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

  

  Beck
  • Write
  • Just
  • Go

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Best
  • Negative

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I've never been in an acting class in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  

  Mae West
  • Worry
  • Interest
  • Diamond

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Country
  • United States
  • Interests

• He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • World
  • Soul
  • Things

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Loved

• One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

  

  DMX
  • People
  • Hate
  • Celebrity