Chance The Rapper Quotes
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
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Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
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It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'
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The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
