Adam Yauch Quotes

#1. It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

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#2. We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Dave Brat

#3. I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

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#4. She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her.

Joss Stirling

#5. I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

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#6. The older we become, the more certain our future.

Mason Cooley

#7. I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

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#8. Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus' death and resurrection to put all things in right relationship again.

Brian Fikkert

#9. It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

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#10. what? - the sky growing black, the wind moaning, the scrim of sand that blew across the empty lot forming itself into tooth and mouth and open jaw. "What are you afraid of?" More derisively than he'd meant it.

Alice McDermott

#11. It's pretty easy to see that ... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

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#12. I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

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#13. I won't sell my songs for no TV Ad

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#14. The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.

Archibald Marwizi

#15. I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

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#16. I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

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#17. If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

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#18. Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.

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#19. Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Clive James

#20. Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.

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#21. I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

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#22. Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

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#24. When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

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#25. Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

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#26. That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

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#27. People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

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#28. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes

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