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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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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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 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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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
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Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
