J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey) Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.
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If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.
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Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.
