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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Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
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When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
