Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'
A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
The main thing for all of us was having a ballad, a slower song. Finally, they get to hear more of a vulnerable side to us! We didn't really have that in 'Reflection,' and that's something we all fought for.
The only thing that holds the government back from just going ballistic on us is the Second Amendment. When we become disarmed, it's over. It's over.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
