'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.
A Boogie wit da Hoodien
The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.
Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.
A. A. Gill
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.
Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins.
If you're bored, it's because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It's the most interesting thing you'll ever do.
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
A. B. Yehoshua
I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.
In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
A. Balasubramaniam
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
A. J. Buckley
I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs
I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.
A. J. McLean
I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.