D-Nice (Derrick Jones) Quotes
I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!
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No, the reward comes in knowing that our entire way of life in America depends on the rule of law; that the maintenance of that law is a hard and daily labor; that in this country, we don’t have soldiers in the streets or militias setting the rules. Instead, we have public servants - police officers - like the men who were taken away from us.
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I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
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In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
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It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don't know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I'm still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.
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I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'
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I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.
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I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.
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One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
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I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.
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I'm rarely wrong.
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People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
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I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.
