Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
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Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative.
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
