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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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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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.
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Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.
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When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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.
