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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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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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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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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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 am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
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All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
