"Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend."

-- Lyor Cohen

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“I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.”

Source : Interview with Robert Young Pelton, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.”
“What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.”
“The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves.”
“I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.”
“Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”

Source : David Wagoner (1999). “Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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