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!

  

  Yani Tseng
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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro
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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.

  

  Venus Williams
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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.

  

  Zadie Smith
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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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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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.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
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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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Why
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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
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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.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

  

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• Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

  

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• Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

  

  Randy Moss
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• It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.

  

  Ted Allen
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  • Day

• You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Up
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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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red