DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I was tested against the best.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I cannot abide being bored.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
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New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
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It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.
