Snoop Dogg (Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.) Quotes
So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, 'Oh, that cut is not as flattering as I thought,' or 'I should smile bigger,' or 'That positioning is odd.' I learn from it.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
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The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
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So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.
