Justin Timberlake Quotes
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I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
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I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.
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We want to evolve; like the Stones.
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I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.
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I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.
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Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.
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I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.
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I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
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Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.
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We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
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I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
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I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.
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I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.
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All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.
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As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.
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Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.
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I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.
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The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.
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Nobody dressed like my dad. When he worked at the bank, he looked like Richard Gere in Gigolo. And he would do it all the night before, laying out the suit he'd wear the next day. Even on weekends, if he had to go into the office, he'd wear a trouser pant with a V-neck sweater and tie. And I was like, I want to dress like that! He was just so cool.
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If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
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As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.
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I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.
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I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.