Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes
There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.
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There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
