Hakeem Seriki (Chamillionaire) Quotes

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

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• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Age
  • Will
  • Now

• One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Questions

• Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Goals
  • Gym

• I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Control
  • Write
  • Over

• I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Country
  • Small
  • Me

• I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Years
  • Early
  • Dinosaurs

• I had applied for a job at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1948 and was called for a personal interview. However I failed to get selected. Many years later, I succeeded in finding out why I had been rejected. The remarks written by the selectors on my application were: 'This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated!'

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Why
  • Job

• 'Through others, we become ourselves.'

  

  Lev Vygotsky

• I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Present

• I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China, trying to play these games, I just wanted the text to go away.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Trying
  • English
  • Text

• I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

  

  Kenyon Martin
  • Game
  • Basketball

• I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Fighting

• I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Positive

• Du sollst dir kein Ideal machen, weder eines Engels im Himmel, noch eines Helden aus einem Gedicht oder Roman, noch eines selbstgeträumten oder fantasirten; sondern du sollst einen Mann lieben, wie er ist.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Concerned
  • Economics

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Real
  • Road

• I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Road
  • Fans