Ad-Rock (Adam Keefe Horovitz) Quotes
Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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There are so many people in this world that have the look and have talent, and yet they keep putting out this teenybopper singers that have no vocal capability at all. Sometimes I think there's no real music anymore. We don't have singers like we did back in the day. Music is supposed to convey a message. Music is supposed to make you feel a certain way. Now, I don't want to hear about big bootie shaking on the floor. Music just isn't what it used to be. I think that with the times changing, labels do actually need to get that and stop signing all these crap artists.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
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I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.
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Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
