Douglas Davis (Doug E. Fresh) Quotes
I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
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I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
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I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.
