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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Because he draws so much attention and is so aggressive attacking the basket, I'd like to see him find the open man just a little bit more. He could average 10 assists a game if he made a concerted effort to do that. But the man is only 24 years old.
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Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.
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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.
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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!
