I had this thing called 30 before Thursday. I started on Monday and by Thursday I needed to have 30 beats, because I read in an article that Pete Rock did 25 beats a week. So I’m saying I have to do 30 beats a week… I have to.
9th Wonder
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Robert L. Peters
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.
Tom Peterson
You kinda gotta know the history of something you want to be a part of. Me I learned from Dilla and Madlib, who learned from Pete Rock, who learned from James Brown, who learned from Duke Ellington...
9th Wonder
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened, Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally.
Bruce Willis
You only understand the hard parts. The rest is just bells and whistles, long division... the parts smart people hire people like me to do for them.
Dan Chase (The Old Man)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barrack Obama
It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I am offended by that." Well, so fucking what.
Stephen Fry
Capturing the moment.. Being a lier for a living and sh*t. That is what making movies is all about.
Kevin Smith
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
Terry Pratchett
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel Washington