J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn't going to mess with that.
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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
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It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
