Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
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When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
