Chuck D.
Chuck D.
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, better known by his stage name Chuck D, is an American emcee, author, and producer. As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, he helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s . About.com ranked him at No. 9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him at No. 12 on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Lyricists of All Time...
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth1 August 1960
CityQueens, NY
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The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth...
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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.
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Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
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Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.
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We're trying to plan right now what will happen in September.
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With a wife approving her husband's salary, it appears that this board's stamp is really just a rubber stamp,
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Time and again, hunters said it happened so fast that when they shot, the bear fell right at their feet.
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When I first started the Project, I could not have expected so much to be accomplished in such a short time. None of my concerns about giving money to an academic institution came true. They've done high quality work with real-world relevance.
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We needed to get a win, and that was the big thing ... . We could feel it on the sideline. Our guys said, 'We can run the football on these guys,' and they did a nice job.
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We get people who say we groom too much -- typically they are a younger person.
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We are now producing a significant amount of oil from the North Slope of Alaska, all (with) environmentally sound technology, ... That environment has not been disrupted ... it's in as good a shape as before we ever put a drill in there.