DJ Jazzy Jeff Quotes

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

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SuccessHappinessMusicMoneyPeople

My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

Joanne Froggatt

FamilyGoodGreatFunActionHood

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

John Hodgman

PeopleBookWriteEveryoneAbleFew

Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.

Stephen Kinzer

FreedomFightAppreciationValue

They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline.

Torrey Smith

StandYouSitDraftSideline

In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.

RM

ConfidenceMeThinkShortTalking

I always like spoken word records.

Ry Cooder

AlwaysRecordsLikeWordSpoken

I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities of color - and attempting to help people who have been released from prison attempting to 're-enter' into a society that never seemed to have much use to them in the first place.

Michelle Alexander

PolicePeopleLawLaw Enforcement

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens

RelationshipWordsI AmLosingWorld

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

Chris O'Donnell

CharacterTimeThinkKnowYoung

When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'

Chris Sacca

MeEndCareerFirstSharkSuit

I can never be anonymous - especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

Lemmy

WalkLookingI CanTroubleNever

Sometimes I get a call from my bank, and the first thing they ask is, 'Mr. Mitnick, may I get your account number?' And I'll say, 'You called me! I'm not giving you my account number!'

Kevin Mitnick

MeGivingYouSometimesSayFirst

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