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Chance The Rapper Quotes

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Chance The Rapper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 16, 1993

Topics

People Control Hands Artist Choice

I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.

John Cena

Sneakers Ring T-Shirt Uniforms Come

I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

Andrew Benintendi

Focus Control I Can Try Hard Well

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Andrew Haigh

Great Ambition Never Started Only

Young people go to concerts.

John Oates

People Go Young Young People

Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

John Irving

Research Writing Ending You Know

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

Maurice Sendak

Artist Just Wanted Some Acknowledged

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Purpose Fight Corruption Literature

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Stephen Covey

Business Uncertainty One Thing Thing

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Robert Englund

Mother Back California She Things

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

Lisa Leslie

Basketball Game Think Look Play Why

Jason Schwartzman's, like, one of my favorite actors, for sure.

Johnny Simmons

Sure Favorite Like Jason

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

History Great Victory Think Fair