William Michael Griffin Jr. (Rakim) Quotes
I’ve always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.
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My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
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(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!
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I’ve always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times
