Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.
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I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.
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The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
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"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?
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I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.
