Afrika Bambaataa Quotes

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
  • Playing

• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Tradition
  • Feet
  • Stand

• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Like
  • Dame
  • Nothin

• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Man

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Doubt
  • Make A Difference

• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • School
  • Acting
  • Doing

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Television
  • Radio

• Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Easy
  • Fame
  • Impact

• Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Star
  • Singing

• My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Name
  • Brand

• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Best
  • Accept

• When you're changing your diet, or you're becoming a vegan, your system will become a bit more sensitive, and you just have to deal with it.

  

  Kat Graham
  • You
  • Diet
  • Vegan

• The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Done
  • Act
  • Skills

• Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Time
  • Law
  • Lost

• Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Law
  • Forgiveness
  • Killing

• Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • People
  • Made
  • Video

• You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • You
  • Know

• I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa