Wiz Khalifa (Cameron Jibril Thomaz) Quotes
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that.
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When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
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One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.
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But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.
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I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
