Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
