BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes
I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.

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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.
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With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I like to know where the camera is.
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In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.
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I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.