I grew up as a sports fan, ...

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It\'s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
 Chuck D

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
 Chuck D
You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Number one: They're trying to please whoever signed them to a contract. Number two: They're trying to appease a gigantic audience and they get this false magnification of love. I came from a thing which nowadays would be the exception to the rule. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Which made me look at everything else as procedure.
 Chuck D
Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
 Chuck D
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
 Chuck D
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
 Chuck D