Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
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Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
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The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
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My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.
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The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.
