The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher George Latore Wallace) Quotes
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
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Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.Primary chief poet Am I to Elphin. And my native country Is the place of the Summer Stars. John the Divine Called me Merlin, But all future kings Shall call me Taliesin.
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When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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To me, fashion is like a mirror... It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
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If Bill Shawn liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.
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My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.
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I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.
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The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
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Goodness Gracious The Paper! Where the Cash at? Where the Stash at?
