Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
