Trevor George Smith Jr. (Busta Rhymes) Quotes
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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I've taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.
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You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.
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Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.
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A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
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A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
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My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
