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J. TILLMAN My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. TILLMAN I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
JESSIE J I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh...
JESSIE J Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda...
JESSIE J The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca...
J. MERRIDEW There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
J. YAHL Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obsti...
J. SWARTZ There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
J. MASAI A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.
J. MCCABE I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
J. HELLER Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with ...
J. BARTLETT My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
J. BROTHERTON A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels o...
J. HAWES Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - ...
JESSIE J People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '...
J. COLE I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. ...
J. COLE I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who li...
JESSIE J My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. L...
J. COLE I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but t...
J. COLE I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that ...
J. COLE I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexual...
JESSIE J I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r...
J. COLE I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.
J. COLE As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm a...
J. COLE I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been t...
J. COLE When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a fi...
J. COLE It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make...
J. STERLING I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change a...
JESSIE J What are you up to?”
“Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied.
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J. LYNN If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and g...
JUICY J I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece,...
JESSIE J I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making somet...
J. COLE We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a com...
J ALLARD When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which...
JESSIE J I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids ...
J. COLE I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. COLE Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the ...
J. COLE I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where t...
J. COLE I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think...
JESSIE J My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
J. COLE I wanted to write ‘stay’ on your sides, surround your bed with oceans of salt. I hope he folds y...
J. BRADLEY —except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool wit...
J. KENNER I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh...
JESSIE J The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don...
JESSIE J Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so...
J. KENNER