Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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President Clinton's record of advocating for the middle class and creating millions of new jobs and opportunity for Americans is second to none. I'm looking forward to campaigning with him and talking about how we keep New Hampshire moving forward and build a strong, innovative economy with the best workforce in the country.
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I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
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Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.
