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.
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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.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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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.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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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.'
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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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.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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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.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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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.
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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
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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.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
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How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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You still don't know what you do well.
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Maybe I’m too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.
