Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes
I might tell a story about somebody else, but I don't sit there and do a story about somebody snitching on me selling coke because people know I didn't sell coke. So I just try to keep it real but still try to do it in a creative way.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Netflix, I love you.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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What we live by we die by.
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Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night.
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
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Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
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I might tell a story about somebody else, but I don't sit there and do a story about somebody snitching on me selling coke because people know I didn't sell coke. So I just try to keep it real but still try to do it in a creative way.
