Damon Dash Quotes
Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.
Quotes to Explore
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
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Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.
