Daystar Peterson (Tory Lanez) Quotes
I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I have a pig valve.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?
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Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.
