Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
