Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes

I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.

Hakeem Seriki

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• In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
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• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • High
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  • Voice

• My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Feeling
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• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

  

  Young Thug
  • Up
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• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
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• And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Beauty
  • Escape
  • Charmed

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Job
  • Actor
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• Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Powerful
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• I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter

• When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Eyes

• I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.

  

  Kenneth Langone
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• It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
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• As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • May
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• I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

  

  Clive Owen
  • People

• The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Color

• The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

  

  Mark Strand
  • People
  • Writing

• The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!'

  

  Chris Young
  • People
  • Country

• I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • People
  • Houston scene