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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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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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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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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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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I got invited to what's called the Gifting Suite in Toronto. I had the day off, so I thought I'd go and see what's what. You come out laden with wonderful stuff. Apparently, if you go to the Oscars, you get given things like iPads. Not that I'm in it for the swag.
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Despite the firewall, Chinese companies continue to advertise themselves on Facebook and Google-my dentist in Shanghai puts his Gmail address in scrolling LEDs in front of his practice. To do business with the rest of the world, Chinese firms increasingly have to get good at using services that are both essential and (theoretically) unavailable.
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Every fight, honest to say, in this division, at this level, is a toss-up. It's a 50-50 chance.
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When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
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But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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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.
