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" I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep. "
Wale
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" There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues. "
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" Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy. "
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" Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. "
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" I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it. "
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" I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for. "
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" My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that. "
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" I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best. "
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" I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'? "
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" My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues. "
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Dream
Think
Me
" I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift. "
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" We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food. "
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" Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. "
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" I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. "
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Me
" Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism. "
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" I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me. "
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" D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama. "
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Person
Love
" I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off. "
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Never
" I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for. "
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" All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it. "
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" I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need. "
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" My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward. "
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" I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing. "
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" I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio. "
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" No days off. I'm a workaholic. "
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" As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music. "
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" I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford. "
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" The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything. "
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" I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself. "
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