Aaron McGruder Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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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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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
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I give tremendous weight to my positive reviews and none whatsoever to my negative ones.
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There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
