T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes
We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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The music works by itself, but you can change the perception of it by the way you dress, the way you move, the things you say, the things you don't say. And when you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged. There's a kind of liberation to that.
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Honoured to be back as Secretary of State for Transport. In a government working hard to level up Britain, connecting communities means everything!
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We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.
