Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (Coolio) Quotes

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Give
  • Chastity

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• He who gives love, receives love.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Stop
  • Water
  • Dog

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
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• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Me

• I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Theatre

• And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Fighting
  • Democracy

• Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

  

  Craig Brown

• Some days, the first coffee just laughs at you. It says, 'Oh, you think I'm going to wake you up? Sucker.'

  

  Katherine Waterston
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  • Coffee

• As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

  

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