Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes
Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition.
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I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don't have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don't do that stuff until I've got the words done for the day.
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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My father was never anti-anything in our house.
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Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.
