Edwin Meese Quotes
Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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Theology is a subject without an object
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If you would judge, understand.
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If we were to see an abrupt change in exchange rates, we might expect there might be some change in that. But again, I don't think anybody's predicting any kind of abrupt change.
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Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.
