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

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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. — Jon Bon Jovi

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Being older now, grown, I'm like, 'What do we really do that's fun?' I'm kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today. -MF Doom

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I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona. -MF Doom

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There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. -Terence McKenna

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Prince Paul is another good friend; he's like an older brother. He'll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That's what I like about Paul. -MF Doom

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Some times your best effort just isn't good enough. ― LeBron James

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Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it's still a small community of artists. We all tend to be in the same circles - people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots. -MF Doom

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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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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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