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" I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets. "
Rza
Big
Money
Gadgets
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" When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves. "
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" 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
Time
Tell
" Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. "
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About
Art
" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "
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History
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" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "
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First
Songs
" Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of not having a voice was part of my life. "
Rza
Up
My Life
Life
" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "
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Creating
Art
Focused
" I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable. "
Rza
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Films
Lot
" That movie 'Hellraiser 2' - to me, that was the most evilest display of evil I've ever seen. I watched that movie ten times because I couldn't believe that each character became more evil than the other. "
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Believe
" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "
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Brothers
Because
Many
" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "
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Waiting
Got
Day
" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "
Rza
You
Wave
Generation
" I'm addicted to music. "
Rza
Addicted
Music
" Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it. "
Rza
Really
Hardest
High
" Wisdom is important in every man's life. "
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Every
Important
Life
" Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. "
Rza
Clan
First
Lot
" 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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Me
Hip-Hop
Structure
" I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination. "
Rza
Money
Domination
Say
" Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me. "
Rza
Mythology
Me
History
" I always argue with a lot of people. They ask me for my top rappers, and he's always on my list. I mean, the GZA inspired me. "
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Mean
Top
People
" When Def Jam wanted to sign Method Man, they wanted to sign Method Man and Old Dirty. And Old Dirty wanted to be on Def Jam - everybody, that was like the dream label. But if I had Old Dirty and Method Man on Def Jam, that's two key pieces going in the same direction, whereas there's other labels that needed to be infiltrated. "
Rza
Dirty
Man
Two
" I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that. "
Rza
Iron
Afford
Animation
" I was definitely a big Run-DMC fan. "
Rza
Definitely
Big
Fan
" 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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Hip-Hop
Quest
Tribe
" I've been vegan for over 20 years, but I started as a vegetarian and grew into veganism in between. "
Rza
Over
Vegan
Vegetarian
" I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys. "
Rza
Love
Fields
Watch
" I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway. "
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Thought
Broadway
About
" 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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Age
First
Movie Theater
" 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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Man
Yourself
Wise
" When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it. "
Rza
Put
Bring
Elevator