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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Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
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I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
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When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation.
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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.
