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Rakim Quotes

Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 28, 1968

Topics

Me Person Islam Over Fabric Percent

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

Great Loved Create Try Kid Study

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Women Problem Different Outspoken

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Love Real Gifts Give Only Able

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

World Know Run Never Old Years

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

Now Advantage Hitters

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

Romesh Gunesekera

Perspective Building Library London

Barbie is just a doll.

Barbie Doll Just

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.

Mary Steenburgen

Father Girl Heart Childhood Little

I'd like to be a role model.

Role Model Role Like Model

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

Focus Job Doing Everything Side

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Placido Domingo

You Nothing Five Facing Some Works

I'm always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their lives. There's something beautiful in the moments when characters disobey.

Sebastian Lelio

Attitude Beautiful Feel Moments Own

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