Eskeerdo (Alexander Izquierdo) Quotes
I've always been surrounded by music. The arts have been in my life for a long long time. It was just always around. I can remember as far back as third grade, me rapping, pencil on the desk rapping type s**t. So I always had a passion for it.
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
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Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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I've always been surrounded by music. The arts have been in my life for a long long time. It was just always around. I can remember as far back as third grade, me rapping, pencil on the desk rapping type s**t. So I always had a passion for it.
