Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
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It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
