I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.