Douglas Davis (Doug E. Fresh) Quotes
When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.Douglas Davis
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen -
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
Kara Lindsay
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
My first album was completed in three months.
Adam Lambert -
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn -
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Manish Dayal -
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Og Mandino -
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry -
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
Carly Schroeder -
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
Abraham Lincoln -
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.
Leo Howard -
You know, it's interesting for the president to say something that juvenile. I'm not picking on anyone. Again, as we just said, four Americans died! Is that picking on anybody when you want to place responsibility and find out what happened so that we can make sure it doesn't happen again?
John McCain -
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson -
Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
Antonio Porchia -
When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.
Douglas Davis