Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.
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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.
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The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
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I really do wish people could understand me some day.
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It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.
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A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
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My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.
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I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.
