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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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 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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
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Our Samsung Medical Center has caused too big a pain and worry for the people by failing to prevent the infection and spread of MERS. I bow my head in apology.
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Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
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Where there's a will, there's a law suit.
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Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.
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It's nice when people approach you to help.
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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.
