Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
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What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.
