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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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
