J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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To me, America is just another market.
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
