J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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I will keep working hard!
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.
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Someone I would love to do a beautiful and glamorous red carpet moment is Lady Gaga.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
