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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Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.
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I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!
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If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
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The foremost threat to Iraq's long-term stability and the broader regional equilibrium is not the Islamic State, it is Shiite militias, many backed by - and some guided by - Iran.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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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.
