Tupac Shakur Quotes
Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I hate the domestic life.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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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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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.
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I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work.
