Trick Daddy (Maurice Samuel Young) Quotes
People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
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My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
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When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
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I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.
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In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from The Damned and Davey Havok from AFI was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.
