Rick Ross Quotations

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.

We're having a little trouble with him currently doing a closing. We're having a little difficulty with Wilfred.

Many of these proposed Peace Palaces never come to fruition. Much of Maharishi's vast fortune is in real estate investments,

I think what's disturbing about the Raelians is the total submission members have to Claude Vorilhon, and the fact that families have been estranged and marriages have been broken as a result of his influence.

I think it's through the same provider. We (Peninsula College) pay an annual premium for insurance. The moment students sign up to be on a sports team they are automatically covered.

James Packer was spotted around a Scientology campus in Australia, has made frequent trips in Los Angeles where Scientology is headquartered, and reportedly spent time in Scientology counseling sessions in Sydney ù and Tom Cruise is his pal. Practically everything that Tom Cruise does has some connection to Scientology. The thinking is that Cruise has groomed this guy to be a big giver to follow in Cruise's footsteps. After all, Tom Cruise is the biggest giver Scientology has.

The parameters of Jewish identity exclusively and historically lay within the Jewish community. Unless you recognize the parameters of a religion's identity, you are going down a slippery slope and opening the doors to anything and everything n Catholics for Krishna, Mormons for Mohammed, Baptists for Buddha.

We're hoping to make it the single place where customers can go when they're looking for Java products. It hasn't really been done by anybody else.

This was supposed to really make a connection with the fans and the drivers themselves. If you are a fan, you have an enjoyment of speed and thrills, and so do our drivers.

There's no doubt that these are big players. This could be a significant first step in closing them down. These groups are led by dominant, charismatic personalities and when you pull the plug on them, it has a collapsing effect on all segments.

Project Matisse epitomizes the finest qualities of the Java desktop renaissance. No other tool I have tried makes it so easy to get it right in the design of a Java GUI, and the code it generates is both clean and comprehensible.

This kind of just takes it to a different place and is something new.

That remains to be seen. We have to try and work out a deal with Wilfred.

It simply isn't open. I think it's time for action. I think it's time for a change.

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

Two, let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let's all have a beautiful year, let's get this money.

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla.

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what you want to do, just like any mayor. You can park your car anywhere. You get the best women. You go to the restaurants and eat free. It was like being a rock star. Like being Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. It was just pure freedom, everything I was looking for. I desperately wanted freedom.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

Nah, that's not true.

I remember when I couldn’t afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and a girl came up to me and said, "Man, the only people they talk about around here are Michael Jackson and you." It was pretty flattering to be considered in the same light as the king of pop in my area.

Through "deprogramming" or cult intervention the only issues that are addressed focus upon the specific group and group involvement. The subject of such an intervention subsequently may leave the group and go on with their life reassuming their own basic individual values and beliefs.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.

Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front.

I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

These haters can't hold me back

Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.

If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Woman is the most precious gift known to man,

I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil...

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

Every boss started as a worker.

Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.