Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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She ran off with my plunge router guide. How am I supposed to build that scale model of the Taj Mahal out of cherry wood without my plunge router guide?
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Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.
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I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.
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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
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Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.
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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
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Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.
