William Michael Griffin Jr. (Rakim) Quotes
Maybe I’m too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.William Michael Griffin Jr.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus -
I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
Magdi Yacoub -
Geffen was never supportive of the band.
Edie Brickell -
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
Kate Beckinsale -
I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel -
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
Zack Snyder -
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
Caitlin Rose -
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
T. B. Joshua -
Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
Blaise Pascal -
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
Ellen Key -
I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
Arne Duncan -
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
C. S. Lewis
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I made a mistake using a private e-mail.And if I had to do it over again, I would, obviously, do it differently. But I'm not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.
Hillary Clinton -
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou -
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
John Maeda -
Maybe I’m too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.
William Michael Griffin Jr.