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" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "

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" Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don't leave your projects too much. The laundry's there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me. "

" I live a very satisfying life. Not because I've made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that's the American dream: to be at peace at home. "

" When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it. "

" You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life. "

" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "

" You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad. "

" I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway. "

" 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. "

" If I'm a cop, and every time I see a young black youth - whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out - and they're not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day - things that a man does - you're going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. "

" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "

" Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it. "

" I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped. "

" Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him. "

" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "

" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "

" I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed. "

" I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer. "

" I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it. "

" The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take that second look, never take that second thought. "

" 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. "

" I tell my sons, I say, if you're going somewhere, you don't have to wear a hoodie - we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. "

" While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want. "

" 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. "

" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "

" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "

" An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art. "

" A servant sometimes need to be served. "

" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "