Big Boi Quotes

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • World
  • Now

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Men
  • Mother

• I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Korean

• Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Development
  • Artistic

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • May
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• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,’ for lack of any better term.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Family
  • Play
  • Drama

• Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Game

• The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • High
  • Divorce

• My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

  

  Big Boi
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