Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw -
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
Naomi Scott -
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall -
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson -
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
Adam Green -
I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
Hailey Gates -
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
Tatyana Ali -
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Orlando Bloom
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
Harold Prince -
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
Warren Spector -
I can't go on. I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett -
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Beah Richards -
I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
Irving Stone
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
Dana Carvey -
On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.
Denis Diderot -
I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
Coco Lee -
What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
Pierre Omidyar -
People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
Gene Pitney -
I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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