J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey) Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I pick different projects for different reasons. Usually, it's a combination of things. I admire the director, and I am interested in working with the director. Or, it's the cast. I can be moved by the story. The ideal situation is you love the director and you love the cast.
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If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
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I just want someone who will love me for me and not judge me for my flaws.
