T-Pain (Faheem Rashad Najm) Quotes
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
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Well, what are you going to do about it?
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
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I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
