William Michael Griffin Jr. (Rakim) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
-
I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
-
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
-
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
-
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
-
George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
-
I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
-
Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.
-
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
-
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
-
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
-
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
-
I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
-
He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
-
Did you see the speed of the ball or not?
-
I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt.. .I have fourteen canvases underway.
-
I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
-
I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
-
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
-
There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.
-
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
-
Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.
-
Why would I be excited that a Democrat won? Seriously, over the past eight years the Democrats didn't do SHIT! Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting; and the Democrats went 'Ooh, let me smell it.'
-
Age don’t count in the booth.
