Chino XL (Derek Keith Barbosa) Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted Streets are uneven when you're down.
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.
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I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
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If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.
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Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I've been keeping journals since I was 13.
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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
