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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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
Colson Whitehead -
Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
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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?
