Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (Jermaine Dupri) Quotes
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
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I am not honest.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
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I don't intend to die.
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People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
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When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
