Trevor George Smith Jr. (Busta Rhymes) Quotes
With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly - it is incredible to other men.
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With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
