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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People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.
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There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.
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I know whites buy more records than blacks. So, I wanted to be able to make the most money that I could. Pop is for both whites and blacks, but if I just stuck to rhythm and blues, it's mostly for blacks. I didn't want to do that. So like I said, I wanted to get the most out of it that I could, so I thought that pop was the way to go.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"