J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey) Quotes

I’m somethin’ serious like Crips that bust gats, ignorant with it like Bloods that bust back.

J Dilla

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Working
  • Luck
  • Miracle

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Down

• Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Want
  • Effort

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Long
  • Care
  • Short

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Writer
  • Director
  • Filmmaker

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Random

• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Race

• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Different
  • Dad
  • Rock

• I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Know
  • Go

• VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Country
  • Friends
  • American

• In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Water
  • Tree
  • Rain

• I love romance films, especially between people of color, because we don't really explore that enough. I would love to do that.

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • People
  • Color
  • Explore

• With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humanity
  • Friendship
  • Kingdom

• I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Heart
  • Ugly

• I’m somethin’ serious like Crips that bust gats, ignorant with it like Bloods that bust back.

  

  J Dilla
  • Serious
  • Ignorant