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Nas Quotes (1973-)
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Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known as Nas and formerly as Nasty Nas, is an African-American rapper from Queens, New York. He's one of the most influential rappers of the 90's.
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βYou a slave to a page in my rhyme bookβ
βHow can you lose when you're doing you?β
βif you squash me, learn to live with meβ
βBeyond the walls of intelligence, life is definedβ
β"Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.."β
βI'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wingsβ
βDon't say the car is topless, say the titties are outβ
βaz still hangin/ years passin, slang changin/ 3 of us now, 4th n**β
βToo many rappers, athletes and actors
But not enough nigga's in NASAβ
But not enough nigga's in NASAβ
βThe smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in ya box if ya shit eats tapesβ
Never put me in ya box if ya shit eats tapesβ
βWe in chronic need of a second look of the law books, And the whole race dichotomyβ
βMad smoke makes me able to quote
Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.β
Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.β
βaz went to 4 quick/ when he went O.T, college life, converted into gangbangin/ 4 n**β
βIt's suicidal, high smokin' so much la', I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken skyβ
βI set it off with my own rhyme
cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone timeβ
cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone timeβ
β"U wet who I want wetted/I wet who u want wetted/any nigga can get it(a favour for a favour)β
βNo idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's doneβ
βFrom child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surface
Bit the fruit from the serpent.β
Bit the fruit from the serpent.β
Nas Quotes by Topic
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Nas on Modernity 4 quotes
βModernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.β
Nas on Investment 3 quotes
βWhat fools call βwasting timeβ is most often the best investment.β
Nas on Simplicity 2 quotes
β[S]implicity is not so simple to attain.β
Nas on Procrastination 2 quotes
βProcrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.β
Nas on Ageing 2 quotes
View all 2 quotes on Ageing →Nas on Mathematics 2 quotes
βMathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute.β
Nas on Logic 2 quotes
βAn idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.β
Nas on Ethics 2 quotes
βEthical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.β
Nas on Weakness 2 quotes
βThe weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.β
Nas on Progress 2 quotes
βDon't talk about "progress" in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.β
Nas on Economics 2 quotes
βEconomics cannot digest the idea that the collective (and the aggregate) are disproportionately less predictable than individuals.β
What Nas Said About Others
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Nas on Klaus Kinski 5 quotes
βI would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.β
Nas on George Soros 3 quotes
βAside from very few exceptions like George Soros, I am not impressed by people with money... Becoming rich is not directly a moral achievement.β
Nas on Christopher Paolini 2 quotes
ββI cannot forgive, but I understand.ββ
Nas on Taslima Nasrin 2 quotes
βLajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things donβt happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.β
Nas on Millionaire 2 quotes
βThe first bias [in The Millionaire Next Door] comes from the fact that the rich people selected... are among the lucky monkeys... [T]hey saw only the winners. They make no mention of the "accumulators" who have accumulated the wrong things... There is a way to take care of the bias: Lower the wealth of your average millionaire by, say, 50%... the bias causes the average net worth to be higher by such... in adding the effect of the losers into the pot...β
Nas on Karl Pearson 2 quotes
βEven the fathers of statistical science forgot that a random series is bound to exhibit some pattern... Professor Pearson was among the first scholars interested in creating artificial random number generators, tables one could use as inputs for... simulations (precursors of our Monte Carlo simulator). ...[T]hey did not want these tables to exhibit... regularity. Yet real randomness does not look random!...A single random run is bound to exhibit some pattern ...β
Nas on Andrew Lokenauth
βWhoever created Bitcoin wanted to remain anonymous.β
Nas on Vanna Bonta
Nas on Kate Nash
βReal sexiness is about confidence, intelligence, mystery, art and passion.β
Nas on Aisha
Nas on Al-Nasa'i
Nas on Karl Marx
βKarl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.β
About Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known as Nas and formerly as Nasty Nas, is an African-American rapper from Queens, New York. He's one of the most influential rappers of the 90's.