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Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
Musician
Rapper
Singer
City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
Pessimism
Emotion
Philosophy

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Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.
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The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.
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Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
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The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.
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I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.
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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.
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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.
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You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
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I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose.
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Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.
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A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar with the scene. I mean, I'm more familiar with people coming from other countries like Latin-American MCs and African rappers... that type of stuff I'm really starting to get a hold on.
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The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.
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I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.
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Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.
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