J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
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Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.
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There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
