Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (Jermaine Dupri) Quotes
The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
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We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.
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I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
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The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.
