J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
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When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
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When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
