Aaron McGruder Quotes
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
