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I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.
Big Sean
I have an aspiration that surpasses my present circumstances.
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The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.
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'The loftier the aspiration, the more arduous the journey; however, with greater exertion comes increased mental acuity.'
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Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.
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'Once the heavens were our limit, now the sky is our perspective.'
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A man that can master patience can master anything.
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A person with the capability to persist can conquer anything.
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You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.
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'One must take initiative in their own education; experience is the greatest teacher, but cannot be relied upon exclusively.'
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Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.
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Endurance is the capacity to tolerate difficulty, discomfort, deferment without losing one's temper or becoming agitated, I believe that if you can understand endurance you can comprehend anything.
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I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!
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'My stature may be small, but my compassion is immense!'
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From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.
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I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.
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Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love
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I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.
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I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.
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Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.
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I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.
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My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.
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I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.
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It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.
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High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.
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Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.
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Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?
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It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who’s one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who’s one of my homies, and I don’t look at Mac different because he’s white. He’s my homie.
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Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.
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There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.
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I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.
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The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy.
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To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.
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There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.
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I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.
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Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.
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I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.
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I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.
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I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real.
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I want people to feel like they can do anything.
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Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected.
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I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.
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I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.
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I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about.
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I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.
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Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.
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Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.
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People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, good ass interviews like this one, you're finally famous.
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God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it.
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When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.
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Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.
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I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings.
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Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.
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I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
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I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.
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It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.
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Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.
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