Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I choose to express myself.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
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Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
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Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.
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I have insisted that econometrics must have relevance to concrete realities, otherwise it degenerates into something which is not worthy of the name econometrics, but ought rather to be called playometrics.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.
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All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.
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It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
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If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
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The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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I got to keep moving, I've got to keep living and I've got to keep working.
