Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (Coolio) Quotes
Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth-in a word, to know himself-so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
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Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.
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You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her for?" "She laughed at my mustache!" "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
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Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
