Santiago Leyva (Fashawn) Quotes
I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I'm a dork!
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.
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What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
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I'm a cheap date.
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I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.
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The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
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I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
