Schoolboy Q (Quincy Matthew Hanley) Quotes
Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction.
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No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.
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From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.
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Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.
