Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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Check-ins are cool, but kind of a pain.
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Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
