Sidney Royel Selby III (Desiigner) Quotes
'XXL,' they call me a freshman, but I'm a pro. So, this a platform to let people know I'm out here.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.
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'XXL,' they call me a freshman, but I'm a pro. So, this a platform to let people know I'm out here.
