Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (Coolio) Quotes
I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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The first job I had with what you might call human dignity, meaning with an office of my own and a bit of self-determination, was in technical writing, and only after I moved to Tel Aviv, where being a native English speaker is a meal ticket.
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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.
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Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
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I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.
