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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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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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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And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
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Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
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I don't give a damn about trolls.
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I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
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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.
