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

I like my beat down low, and my top let backCan see me ride 24's wit a chopper in the back

T.I.

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• The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Different
  • Writing

• It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Children
  • Eye

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Real
  • Art
  • Free

• I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Theatre

• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Important
  • Listen

• Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Life
  • Parent

• After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • School
  • Job
  • Lost

• I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Problems

• We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Change
  • Wish

• I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Food
  • Respect

• I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May
  • Author
  • Gentleman

• I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

  

  Christopher Columbus

• Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great
  • Game
  • Earth

• As for 'taste' as a criterion of painting I find that it is most frequently applied to work that is essentially insensitive, brutal or vulgar beyond question. Could it now be a term with political undertones to seduce, or cover profounder motives of exploitation? I propose it be kept to the wine cellar. There it deceives no one but him who over-indulges.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Work
  • Political
  • Question

• The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Feminist

• You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.

  

  Nikki Jean
  • Work
  • School
  • Mom

• Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Experience
  • Artists
  • Novel

• There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

  

  Laurence Tribe
  • Progress
  • Equality

• Obviously everybody can't go to the convention, but if you're staying away from the convention because you disagree with a style or some substance of Donald Trump, that's a mistake because we've got our country at stake.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Country
  • Style
  • Mistake

• I like my beat down low, and my top let backCan see me ride 24's wit a chopper in the back

  

  T.I.