What Could I Say?

[Just Read It]
Playboy, February 1966.

Dylan on how he chose his career:

"Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy — he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say? " via nymag

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& I Love It

The artist Robert Rauschenberg once said of Ms. Sedgwick: “I was always intimidated and self-conscious when I talked to her or was in her presence because she was like art. I mean, she was an object that had been very strongly, effectively created.”

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You've Officially Been Chopped & Screwed

"The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence."

"Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it."

-John Galliano

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The Woman I Wanted To Be

"There's no success without frustration."
"There's no success without frustration."
"There's no success without frustration."

-Diane Von Furstenburg

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Gettin Money, Diva's Gettin Money

"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."-Madonna

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Concrete Advice

[ You Really Wanna Know Huh ]"Hey Mr. Phifer, let me first start off by saying I love your blog. I had to know if you were a dealer, because it's dope to me lol but anyway I was wondering if you had any advice for other bloggers. I run a blog ( insert blog address here ) and it was definetly inspired by lateboots and aaron doing ya'll thing. It's hard getting it off the ground. Please help."

I really like the fact that my team and I have inspired so many...but somethings should be left to the professionals and I mean that in the most humble way. Im on my way to the gym [ thanks to the post below ] so let me wrap this up real quick and I want to give some advice to a few fellow bloggers. I've rececied tons of emails about how can people create/start/perfect their blog and here is my response.

Some people are meant to be observers, what do you have new to offer to the world? Recycling should not be blogged. Sometimes you should just respect the artistry of other blogs, get your life and then tip. It's not meant to be done again and at the end of it all what are you really creating? Everyone shouldn't blog because everyone doesn't have the "IT" factor. Find something else you're good at, blogging is much more than a post, it's about the people.

Now for my over thinkers Im not saying that we don't or that it's not ok to use other post from blogs but Im speaking on a bigger platform..WHAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE OF YOUR BLOG?. Again I do appreciate every email but come on people, there is an art to blogging-from the dynamics, the images, the content. So if being creative doesn't come natural then find something else to do; start something new, don't tailgate.

Thank you & you're welcome.

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Don't Tell Me What To Do

"Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!" -Marianna Faithfull

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You Better Stop It Now

[On broking a lot of '50s-era rules]
Moore: I had Laura wear pants, because I said, "Women don't wear full-skirted dresses to vacuum in." CBS said, "'You know, we're afraid that housewives are going to be a little annoyed because she looks so good in pants." So they made Carl promise not to let me wear pants in more than one scene. We went along with that for about three episodes, and then finally, I was just wearing the pants. We got the absolution of men everywhere and women kind of breathed a sigh of relief, too, and said, "Hey, that's right. That's what we wear."

via: TV Guide
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Gettin Money

"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

- Andy Warhol

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All My Purple Life

"Now where I come from--We don't let society--Tell us how it's supposed to be--Our clothes, our hair--We don't care--It's all about being there--Everybody's going Uptown" -Prince

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Sidewalk Talk With Ye

Kanye took a Q&A session.

When asked about his single ‘Love Lockdown’, Kanye explains why he chose to make the single. ‘This is a wakeup call … people in music get comfortable … Rappers get comfortable’.

Kanye said this was the case with Beyonce.‘Rihanna was the best thing to happen to Beyonce’, referring to Rihanna’s rise to stardom suggesting Beyonce had to set the musical bar higher.

Kanye believed that Beyonce did this with her new video ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)’. He expressed his respect and love for it, while saying it was a concept that he never would have come up with.

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We Gon Show You How To Hustle

"It's incredible how I etch my plans out, to be physically subtle and financially stand out/ice cream ya way on to somebodys magazine cover."-Pharrell Williams


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Hard Candy

"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it."

"I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this."

"I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God." -Madonna

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From Brooklyn To Rome [ Advanced Courses ]

Shawn Carter is making it harder out here for trade boys-your swagger ain't like his. This is what you tell them "get outta my face, you ain't got no swaaaagggggg."

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Click Click

"It's about energy, it's about me getting in sync with people or a group I'm photographing...people respond to energy."

"...I think that's alot of what I do, I'm just able to get people to that point where they're free." -Terry Richardson



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That Billionaire Boy

"I wanna inspire people to keep going in every way, shape or form, no matter what. If I can inspire them in some way and make their lives, better, then I know I've done my job." -Pharrell Williams

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His Majesty

"Everything these days has to occur in a bigger way in order to get people's attention" -Marc Jacobs

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Dancing In The Streets

"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human."

"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. "

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. David Bowie

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You're The Boss Applesauce

"I've always had a conflict because I'm shy and yet i like to take up a lot of personal space. Mom always said, 'Dont' be pushy, but let everybody know you're around.' I wanted to command more space than i was commanding, but then i knew i was too shy to know what to do with the attention if i did manage to get it. That's why i love television. That's why i feel the television is the media I'd most like to shine in. I'm really jealous of everybody who's got their own show on television. As i said, I want a show of my own called Nothing Special." -Andy Warhol

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Don't Worry

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!” -Bob Marley

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