Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Control
  • Destiny

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Business

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.

  

  Washed Out
  • Together
  • Way
  • Kind

• In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • American

• We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

  

  Amy Poehler
  • May
  • Death
  • Dead

• With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Life
  • Art
  • Practice

• I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Why
  • Hand

• It is blood which moves the wheels of history.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • History

• I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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