Chance The Rapper Quotes
Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.Chance The Rapper
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr -
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
Danica McKellar -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
P. C. Cast -
Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
Malcolm McDowell
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
Abraham Lincoln -
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith -
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
Victoria Abril -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington -
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
Baz Luhrmann
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
Garrett Hedlund -
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn -
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
Rachel Zoe -
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
Ted Cruz -
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
Fefe Dobson -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
Madeleine Albright -
It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.
Lauren Alaina -
In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
Kelly Lynch -
When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck -
Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.
Peter Noone -
Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
Chance The Rapper