Rashard Bradshaw (Cakes da killa) Quotes
I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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I will say this - I certainly will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.
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I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.
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I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
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...it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he was not going to stop talking at any point in the meal.
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You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
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I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."
