Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

Jesmyn Ward

LifeBlackThinkingFindStopWrite

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

WorldWillFirmWhoHeHimself

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

Stephen Graham Jones

CarBookTalkingYouUncleHand

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

Sun Tzu

FightWillCannotVictoriousKnows

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

Matt Berninger

GoodMeSongSwingWayWrite

I'm a chocolate guy.

Jay Pharoah

ChocolateGuy

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

Joshua Foer

MemoriesPhotographyHumanPrinting

One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.

Jon Ossoff

SpeakYouRulesCongressGoMatter

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

Cliff Chiang

RideStoryYouWantAudienceTake

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

Cliff Martinez

MusicWaitFreeNewSittingOut

I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?

Bob Newhart

LifeLoveWorldSomeoneNew Life

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Art Buchwald

TimeBestWorstGotOnlyOnly Time

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