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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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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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 always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.
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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.
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As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
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I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
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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.
