T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes
You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I never argue with people about movies.
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That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
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You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.
