J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.
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I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
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Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
