Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) Quotes
I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has soul and funk in it, no matter the genre.
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Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.
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Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
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The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more concrete advantages in the world for people who praise than for those who denounce. So if you want to tell the truth, oftentimes you're going to err on the side of denouncing. That's just something I have to work on.
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I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
