DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
You can't speak for the people unless you're able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I know what poverty is.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.
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A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are the women who are quite conservative in their political views.
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I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
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You can't speak for the people unless you're able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?
