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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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.
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When you've played two sets against the girl, you kind of know her game, and by the third set I was really comfortable.
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I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
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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.
