The best thing you can do when a woman shows interest in you is to shut up and let her talk herself out. Like any negotiation, the less you open your noisy mouth, the better. I don't mean you should be silent. Don't just stand there like a 17-year-old on ketamine. Conversational gambits will be required, but not yet. Don't get greedy and ask for too much too soon. Shhhh!" - Phil Robinson, Charlie Big Potatoes
This is the moment that I'll be the brokest I'll ever be. And tomorrow, if I make another million, then that'll be the brokest I'll ever be. Until I hit that one billion dollars, net, after taxes, I'm constantly trying to grow. And if I don't, I'm gonna be sick, cause there's so much money to get.. And because I have these ridiculous spending habits. I love the cooks, I love having a driver, I love not wearing the same pair of sneakers twice, I love having new clothes. I get to pop tags every day. To some people, that's a bit much. But I don't give a fuck. I know where I'm from, I know I work hard. I feel like everyone should work towards having what I have. A lot of this shit seems like fantasy, so I'm telling everybody it exists. You can have a ball. - Dame Dash, XXL, December 2003
"HEAVEN and HELL exist within us. HEAVEN is what you make it, and HELL is what you go through." - Poppa Wu (shaken in by Da Ryder)
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
"[Jessica Simpson] once declined an order of Buffalo wings with the fairly grave statement that she doesn’t eat buffalo. As a friend of hers pointed out, it had apparently never occurred to her to wonder, given her understanding of the etymology, where on a buffalo you would find the wings to begin with." - from article on MTV's "Newlyweds", MSNBC.com, October 2003 (shaken in by ?)
"You gotta love me a little to hate me at all." - Kenna, MTV Lab Seminar, 11/7/03
"I'm a natural fat person just dying to get out." - Beyonce, Blender, November 2003
"What's you favorite slang word? Silverback: If you're a gorilla nigga, if you can just roar and twist someone's head off, then you're a silverback. It's like the alpha male. - Method Man, Blender, November 2003
"All this about the 20, 21 mile bridge. That's gone, the whole thing is flat. God is on your side. We already at the finish line. Anything you put your mind to anything you want to accomplish you put your faith in God's hands you can do it. This here is bigger than a marathon, it's bigger than $2 million, it's about faith. It's about believing." - Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, MTV, 11/10/03
"Show business is like High School. Now, instead of 600 kids at High School judging you, it's the entire world." - Pink, Blender, November 2003
"Most people look at us like we're crazy, right? By the time they figure it out, they say, "Oh, those guy's are geniuses." You have producers and writers, they're the brains! People like myself, Dr. Dre and Timbaland, If you go back and listen to any music [produced] by one of the the brains, you'll see that everyone is in tune with music and sounds. Forget what world you're from - you always want the hottest keyboard and the most futuristic sounds. You always want to come out with a sound on a pad that nobody has heard before." - Wyclef Jean, Big Shot Magazine, Nov/Dec 2003
"I don't even know what it means to go on vacation, work is pleasure for me." - Toni Morrison, Book Magazine, December 2003
"Fuck hip-hop, hip-hop can kiss my black ass. If hip-hop was a person, I feel like it would be Jabba the Hut. He's an alien but, you know, with gold chains and shit, Jabba the Bling. Yeah, fuck hip-hop. Wait, I already said that." - Pace Rock (Five Deez) XLR8R, November 2003
"Right now the music business is in a state of emergency. The ends don't justify the means. The big advances and all that have shown diminishing returns that they have unfairly blamed on downloading and other things. And really the real reason is that they don't develop artists that people are in awe of, and they feel they can do whatever they see on stage, then you're taking the awe. Anytime the awe is taken out of something, it's not gonna be supported. It's not gonna be supported wholeheartedly. There's a difference in abilities. I think the level of abilities - when you infantile something it makes it seem like anybody can do it. You have to develop an artist to the point where they do something that leaves them awestruck. Like woah." - Chuck D, Grand Slam Magazine, Vol.1, Issue 2
"Life's a bitch.........fuck it good." - (shaken in by lala)
"Yo check it out playa, let me leak ya'll some real don words. First off there only be two ways in life..good way bad way..now i be not sayin da good way is da good way..coz it comes down to diff reasons 4 real. Understand dat shit..u gotta make a way in life make a difference, standout, succeed, achieve, make it your home. Don't sink down low, stay on top. Don't fall, don't try to be somethin your not 4 reasons u don't understand. Live that dream or try 4 that dream till its gets to da point you are happy, then share." - (shaken in by Casta)
"One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach."- Knute Rockne
"Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 (shaken in by TJ Reeves)
"To be or not to be that is the question...to finish what your started...that is the answer." - P. Diddy (shaken in by Mulatto Babe)
"There's always that one guy you want that you can't get...no matter what you do. Face the facts that not everything is based on the way you feel!" - (shaken in by me)
"If I could be anyone, I'd be a Craig David fan. It would be amazing to see how it feels to hear my music for the first time. - Craig David, Blender, October 2003 (shaken in by Lucky Bonez)
-- latest additions --
"I've always been a big dinosaur fan. You read about them in school, but you never really see any of them like that." - Marques Houston, Vibe, December 2003
"internitude - n. That particular brand of arrogance exhibited by interns who give unsolicited opinions and roll their eyes at menial tasks." Details, November 2003
"The only role like that I would be interested in is Yoda." - Tony Cox speaking on his desire to move past little person roles, Fader, Dec. 03 - Jan. 04
"Is Kobe Bryant guilty? I don't know, but I wish he would have called me."- Macy Gray, Blender, December 2003
"Money is the root of all evil. No! Lack of money is the root of all evil." - (shaken in by Big Gene-317ridah)
"Me? Big Pimpin? I've been turned out by my wife and I have to bring back the cheese."- Jon Favreau, Complex, Dec. 03 - Jan. 04
"Just as women get caught out there, following behind men promising half-truths, people get caught out there following doctrines that are half-truths. The problem is people don't make it their business to know the truth themselves. So when someone comes along telling them something that sounds right, they follow it."- Pastor Mason "Ma$e" Betha, Revelations, Pg. 113
"I've pretty much done everything that I set out to do musically.. Now it's kind of like, 'Ok, what do you do with this success? you've always wanted to change the world, now you're on a better platform to do it, so now is when the work starts. Now you have to do something powerful.. I get frustrated when I'm on a mission and somebody asks me what I'm wearing, or want to talk about any of those really superficial things.. but I have to stay focused and continue to just do what I do and fight the power and tell everybody to fuck off. And hopefully get that message out there that everyone should embrace the freak that you are."- Pink, Bang, November 2003
"Oh, and who the hell is 50 Cent to tell anyone that he can't understand their vocals? He is the biggest mumble mouth in the record industry. I can't understand half of what he is trying to convey. No one can tell me that on the G-Unit single, "Stunt 101" that 50 is not on the hook saying, "Ahchecha stunt." He just needs to keep quiet about some things. - Keshawnta, Keshawnta's Insert 10-30-03- (shaken in by YQL)
"As funny as I try to be, there's something about me that's just not funny."- Michael J. Anderson, Complex, Dec. 03 - Jan. 04
"You've only got a little bit of time on this planet, so use it wisely. Yeah, have fun -- but be mindful of the things you do because there are others who'll come after you, looking to you for guidance, like you look to others now. Forget about what you see on TV and movies...where would you be now without the teachers, elders and friends you grew up around? - (shaken in by Popp Digi)
"All rappers do is watch basketball. All we do is listen to rap and watch videos."- Allen Iverson on why it was a natural fit for him to team up with rapper 50 Cent to promote his new Reebok shoes (shaken in by Big D)
I never give up. I never surrender. I never admit defeat."- Rupert, Survivor Pearl Islands, 11/20/03
