MF DOOM (Daniel Dumile) Quotes

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

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• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
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  • Swim

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Street

• Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Think

• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Up
  • God
  • Wait

• When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Living
  • Where

• If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Bureaucracy

• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wise

• I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• And I like music, too, I like playing music.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Music
  • Like
  • Playing

• I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guy
  • Fight
  • Street

• I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Culture
  • First
  • Deal

• Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Job
  • American
  • Man

• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Time
  • Mother

• When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Cancer

• Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Great
  • May
  • Earth

• I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

  

  Buddy Guy
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • People
  • Writing
  • Water

• Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

  

  MF DOOM
  • People
  • Same
  • Actually