DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I love having the opportunity to perform, and I hate not being given the opportunity to perform.
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There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.
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Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.
