Jordan Michael Houston (Juicy J) Quotes
It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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I never knew much about business. But I've been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better record company.
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I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.
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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.
