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How I can’t find a physical copy to my own shit.
J. ColeJ. Cole I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.
J. ColeJ. Cole People congratulate me. I just tell them God is good.
J. ColeJ. Cole I know Heaven is a mind state, I’ve been a couple times.
J. ColeJ. Cole If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
J. ColeJ. Cole As we speak I’m at peace, no longer scared to die.
J. ColeJ. Cole The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.
J. ColeJ. Cole If they don’t know your dreams, they can’t shoot them down.
J. ColeJ. Cole Every time you go to sleep you look like you in Heaven.
J. ColeJ. Cole Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far.
J. ColeJ. Cole I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.
J. ColeJ. Cole I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.
J. ColeJ. Cole Don’t let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.
J. ColeJ. Cole Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. ColeJ. Cole It’s no coincidence that all the greatest rappers – whoever you put in your top five – I guarantee you they are great storytellers.
J. ColeJ. Cole Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything.
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I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell The only thing that changed about you is me.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EpicurusEpicurus The cameras used to pass by me; now they’re stopping for me.
MS DhoniMS Dhoni Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Thich Nhat HanhThich Nhat Hanh I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
Bill GatesBill Gates To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.
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