I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

People know when you're frontin'.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

I'm a peaceful dude.

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

I'd have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

We smoked a lot of cloves.

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

What the world needs most is openness Open hearts open doors open eyes open minds open ears open souls.

J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

If Pakistan had not accepted the demand to stop cross-border infiltration and the United States had not conveyed to us Pakistan's guarantee to do so, then nothing could have stopped a war.

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.