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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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.- Dwayne Johnson

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The song 'Bite the Thong' in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, 'Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?' Nowadays, you can just do it - have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n' rollers - and it's not considered selling out. -MF Doom

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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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In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know. ― Marsilio Ficino

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. —Steven Kloves

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You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events. — Joel Osteen

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I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. - Huey Newton

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I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun. -MF Doom

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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. - David Ben-Gurion

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