MF DOOM (Daniel Dumile) Quotes

Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
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• I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
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• Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.

  

  Sam Altman
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• I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Understanding

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
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• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
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• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Women
  • Art

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
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• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Driving
  • Hatred

• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Hard
  • Being
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• I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Good
  • Writing
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• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Idea

• There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • World
  • Fun
  • Charity

• One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Writing
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  • Book

• I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

  

  Max Greenfield
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

  

  Maxine Kumin
  • Mind
  • Cooking

• Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • Thinking
  • True

• Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

  

  MF DOOM
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