Paul Eldridge Quotes
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
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I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.
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You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it.
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It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
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I'm definitely not a song-and-dance guy, and if you've ever heard me sing, you would understand that, 'No, maybe that's not your thing.'
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I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
