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.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Throat

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Trying
  • Agree
  • Admire

• 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.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• 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.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Different
  • Want
  • Try

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• 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.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Science
  • Comedy
  • My Life

• I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Great
  • Job
  • Help

• I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

  

  Constance Wu
  • World
  • Trying
  • Bad

• One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Great

• 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.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • Challenge
  • Challenges