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" Quotes and Sayings About rap

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Act Auditioning Character Characters
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Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

Before Business Female Get
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
Change Could Enemy Experience
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Almighty Ambition Associates Banish
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I've been known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

Been Bit Drop Gift
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What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Dream Wine Taste Grapes
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Back Closed Commercial Crap
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

About Artist Could Day
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

Come Having How Learning
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The problem of Africa is we believe in people's report and names but in the context of global development, names and titles have no meaning or merit. What is important is what you DO in order to grow rapidly.

Africa Development Grow Merit
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Ability Action Advantage Competitive
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My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

Autobiography Report Not
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

First First Time Going Love
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

Dirty World Language Comic
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Around Become Born Everything
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

Achieve Always Autographs Give
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Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Artists Been Choreography Idol
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I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Disney Film Original Signed
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I never let people see me without makeup. And it's not an insecurity thing. The perk of being a girl is being able to wear makeup and dress up. It's another artistic outlet. And the 45 minutes it takes me to get ready... is very therapeutic for me. It's hard to start my day without that.

Able Another Artistic Being
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Humans Ecosystems History Life
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Autobiography Self-Indulgent
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From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Always Aware Dre Got
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My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Better Call Forever Hip
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I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

Albums Ego Even Like
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

Around Child Felt Grief
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Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.

Autograph Because Craziest Daughters
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

Any Apples Busy Day
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To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Love righteousness Grow Life Earth
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Lightning Rather Rod Than
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When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Crap Doubt Good Level
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So, the easiest way to waste the future is to churn out millions of semi-illiterates, largely unemployable citizens most of whom seek criminality as the only way to escape the poverty trap.

Easiest way Future Churn Millions
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Africa Rapid Progress Continent
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

End Geared Only Play
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Afraid Become Forget Something
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When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

About Across Been Bothering
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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Although Because Ignore In The Past
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Become Peak Psychotherapy Religion
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too. 

Alwys admit Wrong Save thousands Friendships
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I cannot rap to save my life. The few times I tried it in the privacy of my house, my friends told me to shut my mouth because I was just doing rubbish. I can handle all other genres of music except rap.

Save My life Privacy House
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Always Barrel Bottom Felt
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

More rapidly Civilization progress Its place
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I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

Always Like Looking Me
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If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

Album Best Dropping Rap
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thriftless People Californians Nothing
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