D-Nice (Derrick Jones) Quotes
I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.D-Nice Boogie Down Productions
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Vin Diesel -
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.
Jackie Robinson -
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor Vinge -
The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
Hamza Yusuf -
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!
Q-Tip -
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.
Barack Obama
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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.
Dean Haglund -
I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'
Joel Edgerton -
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.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
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.
Charisma Carpenter
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One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Emma Goldman -
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.
Claudia Black -
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.
Douglas Coupland -
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
Billy Collins -
There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lurking, because when 'The Office' started, I wasn't a regular. You're a guest star, so they don't really need you. They didn't say that, but I've seen the show - with or without me, it's still funny.
Craig Robinson -
It took me a while to learn, but we are allowed to make mistakes and have flaws.
Christen Press
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For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
Emma Caulfield -
We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
Bob Dole -
I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
Michael Bolton -
I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -
I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.
D-Nice Boogie Down Productions