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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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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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.
