The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher George Latore Wallace) Quotes
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'
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Change before you have to.
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Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
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When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.
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I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.
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There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
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My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
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To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
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As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
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Fuck a holster, got the MAC-11 swingin' from my shoulder.
