Lil Durk (Durk Derrick Banks) Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I look up to myself, tryna get better. Always tryna get better.
