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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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.
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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.
