Ian Matthias Bavitz (Aesop Rock) Quotes
Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
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One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
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I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head.
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.
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I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
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Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."
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If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.
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Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.
