Joell Quotes & Sayings

You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey ...
Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay). — Joell Ortiz

I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and s - t like that I would throw headphones on and close my room door, when I'm mad I just close the door with my girl and f - k her. In so many different ways hip-hop has been like my girl and it's always been there to hold me down. — Joell Ortiz

If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion. — Joell Ortiz

I glanced at Puck. "You take one, I'll get the other?"
"You're on Ice-boy. — Julie Kagawa

I've been in the danger zone — Randy Savage

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'. — Joell Ortiz

Continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in. — George S. Patton Jr.

The most remarkable thing in Binder's article may be her reference to a Women's Studies professor at the University of Michigan who, in Binder's words, worries that Fat Studies "may lead to a social proselytizing rather than serious study." In short, identity studies are becoming so far removed from any hint of academic or intellectual legitimacy that even teachers of a more established and only moderately asinine disciplines are reacting to the far more extreme asininity of newer ones. — Bruce Bawer

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront. — Joell Ortiz

I wake up hip-hop,
Go to sleep hip-hop,
Dream 'bout hip-hop,
'Cause I AM HIP-HOP. — Joell Ortiz

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche

As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward. — Russell Simmons

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. — James Tobin

Silvia told Jarvis how she had walked in on her baby daddy having sex with their young babysitter and she had beaten him in the back with a hammer, paralyzing him. — Aleta L. Williams

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art. — Joell Ortiz

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell

You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage. — Joell Ortiz

Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music. — Joell Ortiz

Oh! for Thy mercies' sake, tell me, O Lord my God, what Thou art unto me. — Augustine Of Hippo