J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

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• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Promise
  • Something

• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• I don't do anything political on Sundays.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Political
  • Anything
  • Sundays

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Girl

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Secret
  • Chaos
  • Disorder

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • City
  • Son

• Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Faith

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Remember
  • Goal
  • Child

• Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.

  

  Maurizio Seracini
  • Art
  • Science
  • Revolution

• I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

  

  James Dobson
  • People
  • America

• I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Feels

• The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Stars

• I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

  

  J. Cole
  • Walking
  • Grind