Obie Trice Quotes
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
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The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.
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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
