Mystikal (Michael Lawrence Tyler) Quotes
All you have to do is put me in front of the people and put the beat in front of me, and the rest is history.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.
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I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
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I was bored at college, so I put $10 in a jukebox in this place where people played ping-pong and pool. I put in $10 of 'Jingle Bell Rock,' and this was back in the '90s, so it played 'Jingle Bell Rock,' like, 40 times in a row. It was just really fun to watch because after the fourth time, people were just losing-their-minds angry.
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That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All they did was movie soundtracks. Now, they were making an effort to become much hipper - signing people like Bobby Womack and what have you.
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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
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People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.
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All you have to do is put me in front of the people and put the beat in front of me, and the rest is history.
