Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) Quotes
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
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Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.
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Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
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I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket to his concert, and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth.
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
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We'll build a fortress to keep them out And in a world gone silent, I'll be your sound And if they try to hurt you, I'll tear them down I'm always with you know
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The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.
