Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (Jermaine Dupri) Quotes
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
-
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
-
It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
-
The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
-
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
-
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
-
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
-
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
-
I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
-
I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
-
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
-
People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
-
I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
-
Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
-
Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
-
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
-
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
-
There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving.
-
If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.
-
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
