Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes

New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.

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• Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

  

  Ed Emberley
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• I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.

  

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• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

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• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

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• Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

  

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• I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

  

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• My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

  

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• I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

  

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• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

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• Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

  

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• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

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• New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.

  

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