Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (Coolio) Quotes
If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
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If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
