David Banner (Lavell William Crump) Quotes
I'm proud of Big K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views as mine. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
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Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
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My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
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Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You can't dismiss Josey Wales' quite liberal worldview.
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All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.'
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
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'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.
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I'm proud of Big K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views as mine. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.
