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 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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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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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.
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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
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You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.
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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.
