Santiago Leyva (Fashawn) Quotes
I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I'm a dork!
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
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The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
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Every time I've seen Sheryl Crow perform, it's like effortless perfection. She's so relaxed onstage, but she's really locked into the music and having fun. Vocally, I've always looked up to her.
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We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
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I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
