Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I love working closely with people.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
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A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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I want to wear something because I love it, not because it follows the rules.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.
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I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.
