Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
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Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love.
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I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.
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I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
