Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
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I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.
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Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
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Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.
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Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.
