Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
