Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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There's no business like show business.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I have always loathed working out.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
