Fiasco Quotes - Page 3

• I never put myself out there as an employment agency.

  Jack Welch

  Agency, Employment

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• Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesnt seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Girl, Kids, Issues

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• I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Sometimes, Humans

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• You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic
  level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Political

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• I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Play, Want, Instruments

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• Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually met for the first time at this showcase. They were like 'Yo, you should do a song together.' So we did. It just so happened that the name of the song was 'Wolf Pak.' They said, 'Y'all should be a group called Da Pak, and here's a record deal.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Names, Together

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blood, Guy, Drug

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• Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Doe, Slim, Way

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, Block, School

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

  Lupe Fiasco

  War, Fighting, Night

  "Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. Mach 3, 2011.

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• You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

  Lupe Fiasco

  War, Problem, Afghanistan

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• There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Artist, Tactics, Lines

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• Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Being Yourself, Love You, One Day

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• A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

  George Will

  Iraq, Lag, Facts

  "Togetherness In Baghdad" by George Will, www.newsweek.com. November 5, 2006.

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• For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Chicago, Likes, Sleeves

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• Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Heart, Piano, Common Sense

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• You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.

  Rafael Cruz

  Growth, Als, Way

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

  Robin Zander

  Mortgage, Culprit, Housing

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• I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.

  Chelsea Handler

  Fun, Air, Talking

  Source: variety.com

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• It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Clothes, Pieces

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

  Fiona Apple

  Apology, Done, Said

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Beer, Feel Better, Appreciate

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• When you have two people challenge for the same job and you keep them both and call them co-CEOs, or the whole fiasco of a 'merger of equals'... there is no such a thing. So if there should be dreams of dual leadership, the chances of success are limited. But Bernie [Ecclestone] is still at the top of his game I have noticed.

  Martin Sorrell

  Dream, Jobs, Games

  Source: www.formula1.com

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