Hips Quotes - Page 15

• Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

  Adam Johnson

  Life, Flower, Rose

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.252, Random House

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

  John Mayer

  Real, Self, Hip Hop

  AIM Celebrity Interview, November 2005.

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• I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

  David Brooks

  Ties, Shields, Born

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

  Axel Alonso

  Years, Hip Hop, Grew Up

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that.

  Axel Alonso

  Book, Night, Giving

  "Marvel Exclusive: See 5 New Hip Hop Comic Book Covers". Interview with Zach Dionne, www.fuse.tv. October 8, 2015.

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• I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.

  Josh Peck

  New York, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.

  Josh Peck

  Cat, Boys, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

  Redman

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.

  Grieves

  Growing Up, Hip Hop, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Art, Hip Hop

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• All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, Bullshit, Hip Hop

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

  Russell Simmons

  Things In Life, Hip Hop, Might

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

  Russell Simmons

  Hip Hop, Culture, Impossible

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, Order, Ideas

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• My sound has changed. It's still hiphop, but it's more of like a rock/hip-hop show. It's high energy, stage diving, pyrotechnics, girls showing their breasts. It's crazy party atmosphere.

  Vanilla Ice

  Girl, Crazy, Party

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Ideas, Rocks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think I'm the future of hip-hop. You know, I feel bad for saying that. That's unfortunate, but that's a fact. You can't compare my model of hip-hop with what I'm about to come out with versus anything in the game.

  Spencer Pratt

  Thinking, Games, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

  Spencer Pratt

  Games, Circles, Interesting

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

  Aesop Rock

  Years, Hip Hop, Campaigns

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

  Aesop Rock

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

  Nicki Minaj

  Inspiration, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

  Rakim

  Hip Hop, Feelings, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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