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 would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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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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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
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You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
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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.
