J. Cole Quotes

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

Welcome to the church of me.

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

Nice girls aren't always what they seem.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.

It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11.

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

I schooled in the Boston area.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.

Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.