Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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You are just your intelligence.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
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If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
