Aaron Dontez Yates (Tech N9ne) Quotes
I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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We know enough to stand here in truth – facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
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There is too much repression and suppression in schools.
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There are lots of people in the world who have money. Lots of people in Morecambe have money, let alone the world. And Morecambe is quite a small place.
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I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!
