Douglas Davis (Doug E. Fresh) Quotes
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
Quotes to Explore
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Time was God's first creation.
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
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We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.
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The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
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We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often.
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Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
