Justin Scott (Big K.R.I.T.) Quotes
With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
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Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
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With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
