Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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We always go into a game to win.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.
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If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.
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I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.
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It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
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If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.