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“I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. ”
— Drake
“Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
— Steve Jobs
“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
— Eminem
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
— Albert Einstein
“Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.”
— Quintilian
“The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. ”
— John Lennon
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
— Steve Jobs
“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
— Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
— Steve Jobs
“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
— Paulo Coelho
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”
— Jane Austen
“My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me. ”
— Phyllis Diller
“I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.”
— Stephen Hawking
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ”
— Lord Byron
“I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.”
— Lil Wayne
“My only scheme was to be a rapper. ”
— Eminem
“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.”
— Eminem
“When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”
— Eminem
“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ”
— Eminem
“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. ”
— Eminem
“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ”
— Eminem
“Rap was my drug.”
— Eminem
“I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.”
— Eminem
“It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. ”
— Christina Aguilera
“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. ”
— George Washington Bush
“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ”
— Jim Carrey
“I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing. ”
— Jim Carrey
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