J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
