T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes
The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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I always wanted to do something completely different.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?
