Boi-1da (Matthew Samuels) Quotes

I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

Boi-1da

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• Perfect
• Church
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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Game
  • Idea
  • Writer

• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Everyday
  • Cooking

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Labor
  • Others

• As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• Let's be realistic – 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.

  

  Kajol
  • Like
  • Female
  • Realistic

• I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• My niggas stack their money just to spend it'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Money
  • Die

• Don't talk it, walk it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica

• Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Society
  • Government
  • Church

• We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Perfect
  • Becoming
  • Microcosm

• Yes, I do believe that now after the American people bailed Wall Street out, yes, they should pay a Wall Street speculation tax so that we can make public colleges and universities tuition-free.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Simple
  • Quiet
  • Surface

• I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

  

  Boi-1da
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Perfect