Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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I want to go down in history.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food.
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If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.
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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
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I don't want to take food off of somebody's plate.
