J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

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• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
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  • Dream

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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  • History
  • Progress

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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  • Truth

• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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  • Place
  • Colombia

• I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Men
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• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Sweet
  • Bird

• I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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  • Road

• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Love
  • Reading

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.

  

  Gary Herbert
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  • Nation
  • Utah

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • America

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
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• I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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  • Running

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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  • Dream
  • Childhood

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
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  • Important
  • Political

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • True
  • Funny

• 'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
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  • Live

• Instagram is great for us because it's encouraging people to shoot more stuff. Some of those snappers will become professional, and they may choose to sell their photos through us.

  

  Jon Oringer
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  • May

• When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.

  

  Yuna
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  • Work
  • Music

• Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

  

  James Carville
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  • American
  • High

• I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • People
  • Career

• It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

  

  J. Cole
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