Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
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Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
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Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
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Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.
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The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
