Rae Dawn Chong Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
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If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
