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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Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'
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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
