Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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We know there can be no justice in the Middle East without a Palestinian state. But there can be no security in the Middle East without a Palestinian state.
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I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.'
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The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
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Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
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I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
