O. T. Genasis Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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But kids who don't have positive real-world relationships will use online social communities to find those kinds of relationships. They're more vulnerable to the dangers present there.
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Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.
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I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.
