We smoked a lot of cloves.

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.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

The key to success is failure.

For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough to walk into a room with someone like Larry David and audition.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

What we think determines what happens to us so if we want to change our lives we need to stretch our minds.

My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together... If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.