Eric Voegelin Quotes
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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America is a meritocracy.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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I think Beyonce always looks great.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.
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I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.
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There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We always score, so it's obvious our problem is in other areas.
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Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
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The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
