Chance The Rapper Quotes
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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I want to dress well. I want to look good.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
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I want to do anything where people feel I can help make their franchise better and make a contribution.
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Our message is the same age-old message of life. We have taught in the world for half a century: 'life is bliss, free from problems, it’s not necessary to suffer'.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.
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Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
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There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
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Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
