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" One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge. "
Gza
Knowledge
Mathematics
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" I'm constantly writing. "
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" I like snowboarding, and I like to watch it. "
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" When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids. "
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" I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs that were playing disco, funk, and pop music, and we would gather round, go to the parks, and dance and enjoy ourselves. "
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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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" I don't eat meat - chicken, fish, none of that. I eat a lot of vegetable sandwiches, like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, whatever I can put on bread with mayo and eat, y'know. "
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" I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It's ridiculous. There's no substance. It's a hollow shell. "
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" We were always scientifical in our raps. "
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" Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow. It's the same thing, just that one is on hard ground with the wheels, the other is on snow. You just have to know how to maneuver your board and do things you want to do. "
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" Learn all you can learn. Never stop learning. "
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Learn
Learning
You
" 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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Story
" I love Indian food and Thai food; those are, like, my favorites. I also like Japanese and some Italian. "
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Thai
Some
" 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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" I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or rappers to be able to grab from many different sources to create your story. "
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Inspire
Different
Create
" I drink a lot of juice. "
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Juice
Drink
Lot
" 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
Doing
Know
" 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
" Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning. "
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" I don't think people have ever really been in touch with science. They're drawn to it, but they don't know why they're drawn to it. For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes. "
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People
Know
Soccer
" It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write. "
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Parking
Life
Why
" I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade. "
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Trade
Nature
Scientist
" I think all artists want that plaque, whether it's Gold or Platinum or multi-platinum. I think we all look forward to getting a plaque and hanging it on your wall and having something to show for the music that you've created. "
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Forward
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" I think artists sometimes go back to something when we never should, for many different reasons. You hear a lot of stories that make you feel good about the work and the project; sometimes you try to relive that, like, 'I want to make a part two.' "
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" There were certain things that grabbed my interest, such as photosynthesis, such as us living off plants and plants living off us. You look at everything in that light - so if I'm looking at ice cubes, I might start thinking about absolute zero, or Fahrenheit and Celsius. There's so much that can make me think about science. "
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Science
Light
Plants
" Every family argues and goes through things. "
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" We've done a lot of shows and a few albums without Dirty. He was a wild and crazy dude. "
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" I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from. "
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" Music is forever changing. "
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Changing
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Forever
" 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
Back
You
" Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.' "
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Delight