J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
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The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
