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" When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves. "

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" It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "

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

" I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that. "

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

" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "

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

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

" I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day's work, I can read a few verses. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" My wife and I go to movies every Wednesday. "

" Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. "

" Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. "

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

" 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. "

" I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me? "