Colin Thompson Quotes
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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I won't join another band again.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.
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I died last night. Seventy years too young.
