Umar Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.
