William Michael Griffin Jr. (Rakim) Quotes
I’m very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago – now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
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My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.
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You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.
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And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
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Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
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The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.
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When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
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I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.
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At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.
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Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
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While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.
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Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.
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I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.
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I’m very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago – now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.
