T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

T.I.

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• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Loved
  • Old

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Religious
  • More
  • Say

• Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • Imagination
  • Become

• I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • College
  • Myself
  • Hair

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Different
  • Family
  • Business

• The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Money
  • Society
  • Function

• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Desert

• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Business
  • Movies

• If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • World
  • Want
  • Famous

• I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
  • Parents

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

  

  David Eagleman
  • Life
  • Science

• Winning the World Cup is definitely the highlight of my career. I thought the gold medal at the Olympics would peak it, but winning the World Cup, the reception... it's what we all dreamed of when we were little.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • World
  • Career
  • Winning

• We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

  

  T.I.
  • Famous
  • Rich
  • Selling