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

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• 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

• Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Science

• 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

• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Nice
  • Cool
  • Beach

• 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
  • Myself

• 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

• I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Hand
  • Born
  • Pencil

• 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
  • Focus
  • Band

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

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Great
  • Know

• I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Time
  • Home

• I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

  

  Boris Kodjoe
  • History
  • Slavery

• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Advice

• 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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