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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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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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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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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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
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People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.
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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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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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I look up to myself, tryna get better. Always tryna get better.
