Ab-Soul (Herbert Anthony Stevens IV) Quotes

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

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• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• I'm unemployable in any other capacity.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Capacity
  • Other
  • Any

• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Animal

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Liberty

• 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • History
  • Song

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Best

• There is properly no history; only biography.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Band
  • Focus

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Soul

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

  

  Ludwig Quidde

• Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life

• I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Opinion
  • Bible
  • Journalism

• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Time
  • Change
  • Tree

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

  

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