Big L (Lamont Coleman) Quotes
Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
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How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.
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I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
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Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.
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We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.
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Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.
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Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.
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Yeruham's small. You walk five minutes, and you're in the desert.
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It's a weird feeling to have outlived virtually everyone you ever worked with.
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A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.
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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
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My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.
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The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
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Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose
