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" I have love for the entertainment side of the world. "
Rza
Side
World
Love
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" To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure. "
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" Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it. "
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" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "
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" Wisdom is important in every man's life. "
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" It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.' "
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" A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That's why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him. "
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" If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them. "
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" So I was about 19 when I got my first SP-1200, and on that SP-1200, I made 'Bring The Pain' and a few other classic Wu joints. "
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Pain
" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "
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Love
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" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "
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" I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people. "
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Music
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" As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it. "
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" The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities. "
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Work
" I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism. "
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" When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves. "
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Defeating
You
Somebody
" If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop. "
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" Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that. "
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Two
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Keep
" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "
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Go
History
Learn
" Everybody wants to be a good fighter. "
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Fighter
Wants
" The black community has for a long time been a part of the Hollywood community, and of course we would love to have a more proportionate ratio of films that tell our stories. "
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Long
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Tell
" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "
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" I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day's work, I can read a few verses. "
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" I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight. "
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" The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. "
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" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "
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" Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him. "
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" I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run. "
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" When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown. "
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Jump
Start
Swim
" When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio. "
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