J Dilla Donuts Quotes & Sayings

Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with. — Jimmy Fallon

Maybe sometimes you have to topple a secret empire that's been around for centuries in order to save one that's been around forever. — Gina Damico

People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual. — Jami Attenberg

I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical. — Lenny Kravitz

We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods. — Wendell Berry

You can tell when people are truly happy.
their energy is genuine. — Alexandra Elle

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. — Thomas Sowell

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life. — Samuel R. Delany

Without that
courage, an officer is just another person in the crowd of badges. Demonstrating
courage takes practice. Many police professionals have the knowledge and ability
to lead. Yet, they may choose not to exercise their leadership skills - not to do the
right thing - because they fear losing the rewards that conformity provides (such — P.J. Ortmeier

Not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that awareness already is. Then, in that moment at least, we are already free, ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding - not always as we think it should, but definitely as it is. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you. — A.R. Voss

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground. — Stephon Marbury

You gotta mature, you know. — The Notorious B.I.G.

The rhythm built up, high resonant notes from the buzzing xylophone, the off-scale dipping warble of the flute, the eerie, strangely primeval bass of the synthesizer.
The others punctuated the music with claps and sudden piercing shrieks from behind their veils. Suddenly one began to sing in Tamashek.
"He sings about his synthesizer," Gresham murmured.
"What does he say?"
I humbly adore the acts of the Most High,
Who has given to the synthesizer what is better than a soul.
So that, when it plays, the men are silent,
And their hands cover their veils to hide their emotions.
The troubles of life were pushing me into the tomb,
But thanks to the synthesizer,
God has given me back my life. — Bruce Sterling

I suppose we all have our quirks." Her gaze travels over my outfit as she says "quirks." I'm in my usual hacker chic outfit I wear on jobs, lots of tight black everything, punk meets goth, short on class and full of sass. Because fuck you, that's why. — J.T. Geissinger