DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play.
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At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
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Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
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Along with former President Bill Clinton, we have Sam Nunn to thank for the sorry debacle of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.
