Grandmaster Flash Quotes

I named myself Flash many years ago, as I loved the cartoon. Then my own fans said that I should call myself 'Grandmaster,' because of the way I operate turntables. I put the two together and that was it.

Grandmaster Flash

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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Jimmy Buffett

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I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

Jessica Hahn

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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller

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I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

Steve Scalise

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

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I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Ron Wyden

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I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Michael Morpurgo

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Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

Miller Williams

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When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.

Mo Ibrahim

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Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Jason Chaffetz

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The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

DeRay Mckesson

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Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

Christopher Voss

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