Timothy Elpadaro Thedford (Jay Electronica) Quotes
What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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There's no business like show business.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
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When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.
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What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
