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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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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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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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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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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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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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 feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
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In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
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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.
