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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β€œYou a slave to a page in my rhyme book”
β€œHow can you lose when you're doing you?”
β€œif you squash me, learn to live with me”
β€œHow can I trust you when I can't trust me”
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β€œBeyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined”
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β€œSlave food turned to soul food, collards to neck bones”
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β€œ"Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.."”
β€œI'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings”
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β€œ"Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne”
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β€œI never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret.”
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β€œDon't say the car is topless, say the titties are out”
β€œI never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death”
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β€œaz still hangin/ years passin, slang changin/ 3 of us now, 4th n**”
β€œToo many rappers, athletes and actors
But not enough nigga's in NASA”
β€œA thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up”
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β€œThe smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in ya box if ya shit eats tapes”
β€œWe in chronic need of a second look of the law books, And the whole race dichotomy”
β€œMad smoke makes me able to quote
Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.”
β€œaz went to 4 quick/ when he went O.T, college life, converted into gangbangin/ 4 n**”
β€œIt's suicidal, high smokin' so much la', I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky”
β€œI set it off with my own rhyme
cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time”
β€œ"U wet who I want wetted/I wet who u want wetted/any nigga can get it(a favour for a favour)”
β€œWhat really did I escape from, thought I saw Gods face on the design in my vintage Claiborne”
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β€œNo idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done”
β€œFrom child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surface
Bit the fruit from the serpent.”

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Nas on Modernity 4 quotes

β€œModernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”
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Nas on Fools 3 quotes

β€œTo bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
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Nas on Investment 3 quotes

β€œWhat fools call β€œwasting time” is most often the best investment.”
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Nas on Simplicity 2 quotes

β€œ[S]implicity is not so simple to attain.”
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Nas on Procrastination 2 quotes

β€œProcrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.”
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Nas on Ageing 2 quotes

β€œMuch of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.”
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Nas on Mathematics 2 quotes

β€œMathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute.”
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Nas on Logic 2 quotes

β€œAn idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”
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Nas on Ethics 2 quotes

β€œEthical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.”
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Nas on Weakness 2 quotes

β€œThe weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.”
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Nas on Progress 2 quotes

β€œDon't talk about "progress" in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.”
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Nas on Economics 2 quotes

β€œEconomics cannot digest the idea that the collective (and the aggregate) are disproportionately less predictable than individuals.”
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What Nas Said About Others

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Nas on Klaus Kinski 5 quotes

β€œI would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.”
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Nas on George Soros 3 quotes

β€œAside from very few exceptions like George Soros, I am not impressed by people with money... Becoming rich is not directly a moral achievement.”
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Nas on Christopher Paolini 2 quotes

β€œβ€˜I cannot forgive, but I understand.’”
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Nas on Taslima Nasrin 2 quotes

β€œLajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.”
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Nas on Millionaire 2 quotes

β€œThe 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...”
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Nas on Karl Pearson 2 quotes

β€œEven 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 ...”
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Nas on Andrew Lokenauth

β€œWhoever created Bitcoin wanted to remain anonymous.”
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Nas on Vanna Bonta

β€œStyle of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.”
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Nas on Kate Nash

β€œReal sexiness is about confidence, intelligence, mystery, art and passion.”
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Nas on Aisha

β€œThe Prophet said: Prayer in congregation is twenty-five levels better than a prayer offered on one’s own.”
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Nas on Al-Nasa'i

β€œThe Prophet said: Prayer in congregation is twenty-five levels better than a prayer offered on one’s own.”

Nas on Karl Marx

β€œKarl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”
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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.