Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.
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I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.
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The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
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People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.
