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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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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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.
