CJ Fly (Chaine Downer Jr.) Quotes

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Water

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• You don't fight ideas with bombs.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Rules
  • Looking
  • Limits

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Great
  • Night
  • Me

• 2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Real
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Strange

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

  

  Val Guest
  • Man
  • Poison
  • Location

• In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Roots

• Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Work Hard

• Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Important
  • Women
  • Society

• When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Men
  • Long
  • History

• I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.

  

  W. C. Sellar
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Irish

• I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Strength
  • Hardship

• You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.

  Dito Montiel
  • Life
  • Movie

• I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

  

  CJ Fly
  • Kids