Obie Trice Quotes

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

Obie Trice

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• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Experience
  • Poverty
  • End

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Family
  • Want

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Really
  • Longer

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Risk
  • Said

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Work
  • Purpose

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Hippie

• Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Past

• Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Today
  • Black
  • Reading

• I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Happy
  • Here
  • Kidding

• There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Society
  • Education
  • Health

• I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Detroit