Lamont Jody Hawkins (U-God) Quotes
If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
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Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
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So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
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If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.
