Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
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On golden chairsSitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chantedTo those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tearsAnd for comforting all those whom you had wounded.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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I changed the rules for allowing people to buy into my system as a franchisee. I explained in detail how tough running a Jimmy John's can be. I explained the long hours, the unforgiving weather, the late nights, the weekends, and all of the sacrifices that go along with the industry. I made it tough for people to get into the system.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
