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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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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‘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 wish the world was flat like the old days Then i could travel just by folding a map No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways There'd be no distance that could hold us back
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School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
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'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
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Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.
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Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.
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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.
