Awkwafina Quotes

Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.

Awkwafina

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In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.

Jennifer Egan

LoveMusicHistorySilencePeople

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

Matt Taibbi

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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

Matt Bomer

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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

Mary J. Blige

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I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.

Monte Irvin

JoyLaughterCityMeWorldLoved

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

Luka Modric

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As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Lizzy Caplan

YouLookActorGetActressWorse

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Johnny Knoxville

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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Douglas MacArthur

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These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

Chen Long

MenYouLoseFirstHardEverything

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Clive Thompson

YouStatisticsStopKnowGlobe

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Clarence Thomas

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