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Kurtis Blow

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I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
KURTIS BLOW
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
JARON LANIER
Number 23. Down our street, all the neighbors have his number in their yard. It's a big thing. First...
JEANNIE FREEMAN
In 12 years of the law being in force, this is the first time the government has taken action.
RANJANA KUMARI
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY
Far too many small and medium-sized stations are threatening places, with poorly lit, graffiti-cover...
EDWARD LEIGH
Is There Anybody Out There?
PINK FLOYD
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for id...
BILL MOYERS
It's very unlikely for someone to go outside and shoot someone. It was important to note that the ta...
MAUREEN SHELLEY
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
KURTIS BLOW
I know that Lumumba would not have wanted people to be sad. He would not want you to be upset and an...
KURTIS BLOW
Top of the world, Ma!
KURTIS BLOW
I don't ever want to see you guys here.
KURTIS BLOW
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop. And 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW
The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.
KURTIS BLOW
I haven't seen anything like this in 23 years,
CHRIS SWECKER
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS
I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ...
THE WONDER YEARS
I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
THE WONDER YEARS
Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ...
THE WONDER YEARS
Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS
I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
THE WONDER YEARS
All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners...
THE WONDER YEARS
Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug...
THE WONDER YEARS
Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo...
THE WONDER YEARS
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
NADIA COMANECI
the usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of t...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
This is a devastating blow for Phil, who has really developed as a player in recent years and become...
ROB ANDREW
In my nine years here, this is the first time I've ever seen them do anything like that.
DAN BRISTER
To die alone is how would blow out a candle that someone forgot alight in this lonely world...
MARIANA FULGER
This is the first time in a long time that Brazil has been able to put together so many favorable co...
GUIDO MANTEGA
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.
It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works i...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG
I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS
I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to...
ADAM MCKAY
This is really historic. This is really the first time in 30 years the Florida legislature is lookin...
JOE SAUNDERS
Anything that make the downtown area look bad, we remove it. Whether it's graffiti on the wall, what...
JAMES NELSON
This is not the first time something like this has happened in Egypt.
JOSEPH TUNG
This is the first time that anyone has shown that the brain grows differently in extremely intellige...
PAUL THOMPSON
This is not the first time this has happened.
HOWARD PAYNE
He'll say someone helped him. Baloney. He did it. ... It's special for the whole club. He has worked...
JACK MCKEON
This is the first time the boys have finished first in two years. It was tough surviving such a cold...
DAVE DWYER
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...
She showed me her room, isn't it good, ...
NORWEGIAN WOOD (THE BEATLES)
Our philosophy, for 23 years has always been pitching, defense and base-running. Hitting is last.
LARRY BEETS
Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player.
ERIC ALBRIGHT
One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is th...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER
This is the first time this has happened that I didn't know how [the soloist] sounded.
JENNIFER HIGDON
That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the b...
WALTER DE LA MARE
But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD
You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi...
REBECCA SUGAR
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
Wall Street has lost business to fee-based advisers in the last several years.
DOUGLAS GILL
This is the first clear warning in a very long time by the U.S. that Japan should not cap the rise i...
CALLUM HENDERSON
Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO
I'm surprised. This is probably the first time that the defense of 'I didn't know' denials has worke...
STANLEY TWARDY
We came out ready to play. This was the first time in four years that we beat Bloomington.
DAVE SHOWALTER
This is a significant benchmark in a process that began six years ago. Since those first visits to t...
LUCY WINER
This is the first time that a major art museum has shown his work.
HARRIET WARKEL
This is a devastating blow and has left the workforce stunned.
ANDY ROBERTSON
Belleview is going to blow up in the next few years.
KULBIR GHUMMAN
The Police Investigations department's credibility has been damaged in recent years and has received...
AHMED TIBI
The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA
Somewhere in the world tonight, someone is falling inlove for the first time
ARIA BIEBER
This was the first time someone has 'reverse-engineered' the process to find out what it takes to ge...
BILL SCANNELL
This is the first time in three years we won?t have a major snowstorm before the first day. We?re ho...
JEFF CLOOS
I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take tha...
ANDY WARHOL
This is the best feeling I've ever had. It's the first time we've done this and it's the first time ...
CURTIS DENNIS
In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET
I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years befo...
BILLY CASPER
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in a...
JULIAN BOND
This is a topic that has been covered a lot in the press over the last 3 or 4 years. But past report...
BILL ALBERT
This is the first time a local company has been awarded this trophy.
ROBERT PATCHAPPEN
The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Three years ago, we were 1-23. We have just been doing a lot of work in the off season and that has ...
MARK MALLISHAM
This is the first time a Hoover product has been recalled.
KAREN LYNN
This is the first time CASA has actually had an office.
JUDY GUENSETH
For the first time in years the bad-loan problem is over.
JAMES RUSSELL
At first, you think of the 1960s when the idea of a wall mural was graffiti or amateur art, but that...
BARBARA PORCH
[Courageously, they won 15 and a half of the next 23 points and seven out of yesterday's 10 singles....
COLIN MONTGOMERIE
Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us...
JOSEPH BATHANTI
On this Thanksgiving weekend our joint work has made it possible for the people of Bosnia to spend N...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
What we've learned is graffiti ... begets more graffiti,
JOHN URQUHART
(The graffiti) is responding to all the things that aren't about love in the world.
SHARON HARRIS
This is the first case in some time where people are staying in the open. And it has brought the ref...
KRIS JANOWSKI
Patrick has had some tough draws at state over the past four years. And he did it again this year, b...
CRAIG OREN
We've been doing this 10 years and this is the first time we've had snow. That's not too bad.
KARL GEISINGER
It is the first time in 10 years that we have shut our doors [as a company].
BENJAMIN BEQUER
This is our first investment in home control and automation. Its time has come, the market is ready.
CURT NICHOLS
And now it is said of me
That my love is nothing because I have borne no children,
Or bec...
JAMES WRIGHT
Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you bl...
MICHELLE YEOH
The first blow is as much as two.
GEORGE HERBERT

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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
KURTIS BLOW
I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
KURTIS BLOW
I know that Lumumba would not have wanted people to be sad. He would not want you to be upset and an...
KURTIS BLOW
Top of the world, Ma!
KURTIS BLOW
I don't ever want to see you guys here.
KURTIS BLOW
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop. And 26 world championships.
KURTIS BLOW
The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.
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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
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I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.
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You're not well enough for the story they've planned.
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She had an amazing figure and her clothes were very severe and elegant.
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Those games always got the juices flowing and were always exciting games.
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I thought it was kind of ironic that we went right past Hampton University on our way to the game.
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His phone message box was full.
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I hear it all. The fans really love to give it to him. But they love to give it to me in Vancouver.
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We seem to be getting more and more data along those lines every day. It's not just a coincidence th...
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Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.
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We will respond through diplomatic channels.
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We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inapprop...
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