Charlamagne Tha God (Lenard Larry McKelvey) Quotes
In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there's a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
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I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
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I had three intentions when I became a wrestler. One was to keep my integrity. Two was to give pro wrestling a more respectable image. And three was to be a role model to Jewish kids, who may not have thought they could do what I do.
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When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
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The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and is ordained of God.
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I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.
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In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there's a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.
