Michael B. Jordan Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.
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In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.
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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves.
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Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
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I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
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I don't want to have to look good all the time - that's not realistic.
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You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
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I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'
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Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
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You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
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Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.
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As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.
