Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.
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My father is the oldest of seven boys.
