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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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.
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If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.
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I don't want to take food off of somebody's plate.
