Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Education

• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
  • Happen
  • Winner

• I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Hand

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

  

  Raekwon
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Learn

• It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Long
  • Difficult
  • Process

• I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Always
  • Characters
  • Lived

• Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Care

• Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Beauty

• I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Ideas

• I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Seen
  • Insecure
  • Atlanta

• I am not a comic, I have never told a joke...The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him...My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can....They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads.'

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Funny

• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.

  

  Diplo
  • Work
  • Music
  • Kids

• I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

  

  Anne Enright
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• Sometimes I get off stage, and I almost have no recollection of what happened. It's almost like a trance; it's very bizarre.

  

  Anat Cohen

• I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Good

• All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Trying
  • Understanding
  • Training

• We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • America
  • Pretty

• It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Women
  • Taken

• I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

  

  Big Sean