Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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It's sore, but that's what I expected. I knew that once I missed the road trip that I was going to try to go the first game back. We had a couple of days off and I had a chance to practice once, so I'll be ready to go tomorrow.
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
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I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
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Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
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When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.
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Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
