J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey) Quotes
I’m somethin’ serious like Crips that bust gats, ignorant with it like Bloods that bust back.
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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.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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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.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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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.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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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.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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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.
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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.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
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I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
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I’m somethin’ serious like Crips that bust gats, ignorant with it like Bloods that bust back.
