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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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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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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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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We shall not shock anyone, we shall merely expose ourselves to good-natured or at any rate harmless ridicule, if we profess ourselves inclined to the old fashioned and simple opinion according to which Machiavelli was a teacher of evil.
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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
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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.
