The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher George Latore Wallace) Quotes

Fuck a holster, got the MAC-11 swingin' from my shoulder.

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• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Singing
  • Happiness
  • Story

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Try

• For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Me
  • Really
  • Excited

• If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Today
  • Free
  • Creative

• Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Say
  • Stand
  • Before

• Change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Before

• Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Same

• When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Mother
  • Ideas

• We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • History
  • Period
  • Stupid

• 'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Risk

• A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Reality

• Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Christian

• There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Single
  • Path

• Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

  

  Carmen Ejogo
  • Great

• If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Country

• The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

  

  John Christopher
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Comedy
  • Everyday

• To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Power
  • Single

• Fuck a holster, got the MAC-11 swingin' from my shoulder.

  

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