Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes

I'm all about the fans.

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• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

  Randall Park
  • Kind
  • Stupid
  • Offensive

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Nature
  • Child

• One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Class
  • Struggles

• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Guy
  • Shave

• 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Technology
  • Advertising

• The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hate

• My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Point
  • Favorite
  • Starting

• I have a cat named Dandelion.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Cat
  • Named

• I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Create
  • Based

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Myself
  • Paris
  • Anniversary

• I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Art
  • History
  • Poetry

• There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Long
  • Learn
  • Animals

• I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Humour

• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Reality
  • Role
  • Trade

• I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Love
  • Tradition
  • Admire

• The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.

  

  Neera Tanden
  • Job
  • Years
  • Answer

• I'm all about the fans.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Fans