T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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You are just your intelligence.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
