Hustle Quotes - Page 9

• Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

  Robert Lloyd

  Summer, Past, Moon

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• I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

  Curtis Jackson

  Eye, Opportunity, Stay Positive

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• I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

  Juicy J

  Moving, Music Love, I Love Music

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• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  Muddy Waters

  Party, Sleep, Night

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• The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.

  Paul Newman

  Morning, Night, Thinking

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• Hustle is just playing the game right.

  Jimmy Rollins

  Games

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• I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

  Jevon Kearse

  Linemen, Standards, Lineman

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• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Rights, Years

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• Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  America, Yugoslavia, Play

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• When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.

  Behdad Sami

  Sleep, Wake Up, Hours

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• I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Elements, Half

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Everyone is hustling to get there, and get their two cents in, but are their ideas really well respected? Is there stance in society respected? Respect comes out of living the right way, but it does not always work out that way. People with money, power, they tend to get respect but the the real concept of respect is from people who are truthful and sincere about what is going on.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Real, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Hustle And Bustle, Needs

  "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

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• I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You hustle, you beat the sidewalk, the pavement - audition, audition. I just started working around town everywhere. I mean everywhere - the Village, Harlem, you know. Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Just job after job.

  Jackee Harry

  Jobs, New York, Mean

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I don't think Jennifer Lawrence deserves to be in this category [leading role]? Joy is a great movie, obviously. She's a great actress and I don't want to take anything from her, but it ain't American Hustle.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Joy, Actresses

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• I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Running, Two, Hustle And Bustle

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.

  Colin Meloy

  People, Attention, Rising

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

  Jon Acuff

  Dream, Knowing, Target

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• Sometimes, it is best to listen, ask the super question, for ambition is hustle.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Ambition, Sometimes, Asks

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.

  Cakes da killa

  New York, Party, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look at the streets! The people have smiles on their faces, they're hustling and bustling and going places, they're well-dressed, there's lots of construction going on. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for an economy like this.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sorry, People, Faces

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Flirting, People

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.

  John Ratzenberger

  Jobs, Stars, Cheer

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.

  Lou Campanelli

  Basketball, Practice, Play

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• You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

  Nick Nolte

  Zero, Struggle, Years

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