Public Enemies Quotes - Page 2

• We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

  Flavor Flav

  Long, Enemy, Alive

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• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  Pat Morita

  Children, Enemy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.

  Flavor Flav

  Queens, Kids, Naughty

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• I like Public Enemy a great deal.

  Randy Newman

  Enemy, Deals

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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• TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Men, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

  Ice Cube

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Artist, Enemy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

  Moby

  Successful, Being Real, Enemy

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning of gangster rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, "Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music."

  Jess Row

  Rap, Ice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.

  Steve Pink

  Order, People, Enemy

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Grace, Enemy

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• Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

  William Congreve

  Honor, Enemy, Half

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• In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

  Hedda Hopper

  Gratitude, Numbers, Enemy

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “From Under My Hat”, p.49, Graymalkin Media

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  Flavor Flav

  Rap, Hype, Enemy

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• The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

  Peter Schiff

  Recovery, Guy, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Peter Schiff from Mar 27, 2012

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• The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, Enemy

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.563, Modern Library

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• I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

  Rick Rubin

  Squad, Enemy, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Years, Names, Numbers

  Source: anniepaul.net

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