Big Boi Quotes
My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
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A novel is not a rant.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Time only has value when it intersects with energy.
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Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
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I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
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I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.
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My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
