Me Quotes
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
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Nobody scares me.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
