Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

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• So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Had
  • Psychiatrist

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Trying
  • War
  • Party

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Team
  • Best

• I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Future
  • Small
  • Choices

• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Athlete

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
  • Nothing

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  

  Harold Prince
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Like
  • Politics

• I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• No one in life can ever match fiction

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Life
  • Fiction

• When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  

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