Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects. -MF Doom

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Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery. -MF Doom

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It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on. - Mike Portnoy

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We are playing the long game. We don’t want the money to stop when we go, when we can’t work no more. We want it to outlive us, we want it to be generational. – Nipsey Hussle

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Champions keep playing until they get it right. — Billie Jean King

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I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye. -MF Doom

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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I, at any rate, am convinced that He (God) is not playing at dice. -- Albert Einstein

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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that. -MF Doom

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