J. Cole Quotes

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered - every day I have to earn the right to be chosen.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.

The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

I'd Love to be captain of Arsenal for even just one day.

It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love.

One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s.

I love Prince, thought he was super dope.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.