Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
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Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.
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I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
