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" I love nature, and I love information. "
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Nature
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" To write a story is to create a world of your own. "
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" Documentaries sometimes can be shot over 10 years. You plan to stop in two, but you still gotta catch more. "
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" Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. "
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" One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge. "
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" Some MCs don't take the time to take a beat home or just vibe with it and just figure out, 'How do I attack this track?' "
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" We were always scientifical in our raps. "
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Were
" Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and I learned a lot of those rhymes word for word. "
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" My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties. "
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" Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show. "
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" I played on a 10'x10' chessboard at a hotel in Miami. The pieces were heavy, and I got tired just making a move. Not cool with that. "
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Got
" I like broccoli. I like rice. I like carrots. I like vegetable juices. Y'know? I mean, I'm with all that. "
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" When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did. "
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" I'm a late-night person who likes to eat a lot of breakfast stuff at night. "
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" Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes. "
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Water
Waste
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" As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's better to be that way. "
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Way
Think
" I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think. "
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Think
Listen
New
" As you grow and get older, you evolve. "
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Older
Get
Grow
" Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore. "
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" Our love of kung fu goes back to the Bruce Lee days in the 1970s. Outside the action, we loved the interesting, heartfelt stories and the dialogue. It was RZA's idea to draw all that in there as samples. "
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Back
Loved
Action
" When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was singing and flowing on it. He was right in the pocket. "
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Black
Lips
Me
" Every family argues and goes through things. "
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Things
Every
Family
" Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major role in a lot of music we were doing. "
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Play
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Know
" If you hear people talking about the Golden Era of rap, they're usually talking about the early Wu Tang Clan era and then Nas and Biggie and so on. But for me, it goes back to the '80s - 1986 to 1989. "
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Talking
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" In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story. "
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Writing
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" I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade. "
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" I remember the first 45 record I bought. It was called 'A Dog a Donut'; it was a breakbeat. Actually, I think I bought two at one time, and the other one was 'Dance to the Drummer's Beat.' Those are breakbeats. I paid a dollar for it, for each one. Your average producer or DJ would know who came out with those. "
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Dance
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" Music is forever changing. "
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Music
Forever
" Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit. "
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" Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it. "
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Album
Concept
" I'm not a sports person, but every now and then, I incorporate sports in my rhymes because I'm always grabbing from certain things and getting inspired by something whether I'm totally involved in it or not. "
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Always
Sports
Person