Sidney Royel Selby III (Desiigner) Quotes
I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
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It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
