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
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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want - for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. (15 April 1943)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

  

  Constance Wu

• I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Trying

• I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

  

  Bjork
  • Mind
  • Nerd

• If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Believe

• The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

  

  Joe Donnelly
  • Together

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Character
  • Celebrity

• 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