John Cena Quotes
I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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God does arithmetic.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.
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I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
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My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
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Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.
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I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.
