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 think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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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 moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'
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One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
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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.
