Michael Rapaport Quotes

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Michael Rapaport

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• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
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• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
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• Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
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• I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Wind
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• I've argued this with a lot of people in my life. When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. Ask anyone who has been on a team with me who shoots the most. Go back to Seattle and Milwaukee and ask them. The answer is me -- not because it's a competition, but because that's how I prepare.

  

  Ray Allen
  • People
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• Rid self of suspicions by contemplating love.

  

  Aelred of Rievaulx
  • Love
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  • Rid

• It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

  

  Bob Gill
  • House
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• Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

  

  Emily Gould
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• When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • Burned
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• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
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• Most fan have been like, "You're a monster, you give me nightmares, don't talk to me."

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Fan
  • Monster
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• Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin "Oh, shut up, you medieval drama queen" - Claire

  

  Rachel Caine
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• I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

  

  Colleen Saidman
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• Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
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  • Loved
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• Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

  

  Tina Desai
  • New York City
  • Bombay

• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • New York City
  • Disco
  • Radio Station