Master P (Percy Robert Miller) Quotes
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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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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I will allow myself to sleep in until 9 A.M. on the weekends.
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I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
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Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
