Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
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I know what poverty is.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.
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Because Bobby and I are both under the category of idols, I think it became a larger controversy. I hope that many people are able to realize that within hip-hop, this is a way to express yourself and that it's natural.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
