Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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We always go into a game to win.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
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All of us wish for a dignity that commands respect. But few have it.
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I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.