J-Hope (Jung Ho-seok) Quotes
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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I write very slowly.
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I wish all men were like dogs.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
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Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
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It is not necessary that the scion of a singing family, even if he sings, can excel in it. In order to reach his peak he has to work very, very hard.
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I can't tell you how happy I am. It's been a long time.
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If you don’t work hard, their won't be a good result.