Terrence LeVarr Thornton (Pusha T) Quotes

Me tweeting sometimes, it's like, I don't even remember what I say. It's just coming off how it's coming off.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Personality
  • Find

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Think
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Words

• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Style

• I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Politics
  • Interest
  • Kid

• If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.

  

  Peter Mayer
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Real

• We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Movement

• The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Opinions
  • Images

• I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of course, you get help along the way, and cosigns and management and opportunities and things like that but overall, the ball is in your court basically.

  

  J. Cole
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Career

• Me tweeting sometimes, it's like, I don't even remember what I say. It's just coming off how it's coming off.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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