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I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.
Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it's been products that don't put anything back into our community.
It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.
I'm a big advocate of being around the things that you want to do eventually, and being around people who are doing them.
I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.
The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.
I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed.
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
I had to tell the city that 2Pac passed, and I had to be on the radio early after Biggie passed. Those were awful, emotional.
For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.
Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.
It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, 'I love your show,' and I have no idea which one they're talking about.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.
Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.
When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!
You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.
Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
I'm a Remy Martin guy. I like Remy and Coke, and I like the white Remy V with pineapple. I'm an equal-opportunity Remy drinker.
I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.
Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.
I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.
I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.
Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.
I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.
Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.