J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I received free health care.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
