Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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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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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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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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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.
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If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
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We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
