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" The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator and the days to deal with diplomacy and democracy. Every great leader should know that, even a dictator. Tyrants get overthrown. "

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" I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy. "

" When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

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" Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV. "

" 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 love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys. "

" I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets. "

" I was definitely a big Run-DMC fan. "

" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "

" Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me. "

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" We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad. "

" 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. "

" I have love for the entertainment side of the world. "

" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "

" When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then. "

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

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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. "

" I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, 'Well he did this; he did that.' "

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

" I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. "

" 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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" 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. "

" If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people. "

" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "

" 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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" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "

" In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities. "

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