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Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I've been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he's on… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
It's easy to just punch down but the things that I think are really funny are characters who seem real. You have… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
Say an A&R person wants me to do this type of song because they feel it is going to work on the… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real… — John 5 Copy Share Image
Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave… — Buddha Copy Share Image
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I'm a businesswoman. You know, I have other investments too, real estate. A long time ago, I would buy a house and… — Vanna White Copy Share Image
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I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this… — James Brown Copy Share Image
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
That's my real message: I work very hard. We're an honest presentation, we try to give people entertainment and information at the… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
I was afraid of the sophomore slump even before our first record came out. It was a very real fear because I'd… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I felt like the last record was a real step forward for us. I was very pleased to see some people saying… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
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Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
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