Jeremih Felton (Jeremih) Quotes
I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
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When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
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I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.
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I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.
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I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.
