Wale Quotes
Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I'm a dork!
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
