Nipsey Hussle (Ermias Joseph Asghedom) Quotes

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

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• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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  • Mind
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• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  

  Victoria Gotti
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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
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• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

  

  Jeff Bridges
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• I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

  

  Donald Johanson
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• It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

  

  Joe Bastianich
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• As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

  

  Mark Sanchez
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• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

  

  Sting The Police
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• There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
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• I've always wanted to become an actress. It's been a lifelong dream, but my family and I didn't know how to do it.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
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• I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
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• With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

  

  Garth Ennis
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• Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Black

• Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

  

  Bette Davis
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  • Women
  • Advantage

• A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

  

  Iain Glen
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  • Film
  • Budget

• If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
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