DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.
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Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
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I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.
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Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.
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The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
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My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.
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Nas is the only person whose concert I been to.
