J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
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As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
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The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
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I started as a print reporter.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
