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

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

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

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Shopping

• 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'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Why

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.

  

  Nicola Griffith
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Literature

• I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

  

  James Cagney
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Girl

• When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Support

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

  

  J Dilla
  • Serious
  • Ignorant