J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.
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My outlook for the future is still the same as for any healthy person of my age. The only difference is that now I have to learn how to live with cancer. If I respond well to the chemotherapy, I can hopefully put the cancer into remission for another ten years or even longer.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
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I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
