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.

Nas

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• Game
• Change
• Respect

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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.

  

  Rand Paul
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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.

  

  Magic Johnson
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  • Work
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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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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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.

  

  Babasaheb
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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.

  

  Carl Hubbell
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• We always go into a game to win.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
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  • Always
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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.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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  • Game

• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
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• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
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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?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
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• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
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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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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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.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.

  

  J. A. Adande
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• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Vision
  • Internet

• I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Happy
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Son-they say there isn’t any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Country
  • America
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Game
  • Change