Howard Bailey Jr. (Chingy) Quotes
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
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We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections.
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Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
