Wale Quotes
I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.
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I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.
