David Banner (Lavell William Crump) Quotes
We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
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Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.
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We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.
