Arthur Baker Quotes
I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Be obscure clearly.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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You can stroke people with words.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
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Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
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I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
