J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes

When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Period
  • Stars

• And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Period
  • Look
  • Face

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Great
  • American
  • Period

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Good
  • Period
  • Movies

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Period
  • Curiosity

• Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • America
  • Seductive

• My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man.

  

  Matt Lauria
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.

  

  J. Cole
  • Period
  • Rap