Best quotes from Jay-Z

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4 weeks ago

13th November 2018

Victor Mochere

“People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.”
“I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.”
“You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.”
“Those who are successful overcome their fears and take action. Those who aren’t submit to their fears and live with regrets.”
“Either love me or leave me alone.”
“When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.”
“By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.”
“I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.”
“You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip, you can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.”
“I believe everyone in the world is born with genius-level talent. Apply yourself to whatever you’re genius at, and you can do anything in the world.”
“Life is for living, not living uptight. See ya somewhere up in the sky.”
“Don’t tell me what was said about me… Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.”
“I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.”
“People look at you strange, say you changed. Like you worked that hard to stay the same.”
“I’m like a dog. I never speak, but I understand.”
“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not trying.”
“A wise man told me don’t argue with fools. Because people from a distance can’t tell who is who.”
“I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.”
“As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.”
“I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.”
“I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.”
“Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.”
“They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.”
“I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.”
“It’s hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he’s like, ‘You speak so well!’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Do you understand that’s an insult?”
“All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see, nobody else but me.”
“You can pay for school but you can’t buy class.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“They talk. We live. Who cares what they say?”
“We change people through conversation, not through censorship.”
“I went through hell, I’m expecting heaven.”
“I’m a hustler baby; I sell water to a well.”
“If people don’t hate you, you’re probably not doing very big things.”

Best quotes from Kylie Jenner

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1 day ago

10th December 2018

Victor Mochere

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – Kylie Jenner
“I don’t really follow trends – I don’t like wearing what other people are wearing. I just like to be original.” – Kylie Jenner
“I definitely don’t make many friends. It’s my choice.” – Kylie Jenner
“I’m not materialistic.” – Kylie Jenner
“I always try to do my best to inspire people to be good and do the right thing.” – Kylie Jenner
“I want to explore a lot of things.” – Kylie Jenner
“I change my style maybe every month.” – Kylie Jenner
“I don’t really regret anything.” – Kylie Jenner
“I don’t think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myself, but I think that it makes me a lot happier when I’m sharing my life with somebody.” – Kylie Jenner
“I know how influential I am over my fans and followers. I feel like everything I do, my hair color, my makeup, I always start these huge trends, and I don’t even realize what I’m capable of.” – Kylie Jenner
“There is absolutely a side of me that people don’t know.” – Kylie Jenner
“I keep a close circle.” – Kylie Jenner
“I just learned normal is very boring.” – Kylie Jenner
“I do think about if I didn’t have to be famous. And it’s like a fantasy sometimes, but there’s really not one problem I have. You figure out how to deal with it.” – Kylie Jenner
“I like to have fun, I’m silly, and I keep the mood light.” – Kylie Jenner
“Since I was years old, I’ve been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what, and what not, to do, you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place.” – Kylie Jenner
“I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I’m so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.” – Kylie Jenner
“I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it’s just a part of being a human being.” – Kylie Jenner
“I feel like, growing up, I haven’t had a lot of room for error – I don’t have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I’m just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.” – Kylie Jenner
“When I’m, like, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.” – Kylie Jenner
“It’s harder to make new friends and see if people have, like, true intentions and stuff like that.” – Kylie Jenner
“Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.” – Kylie Jenner
“I take, like, selfies to get one I like.” – Kylie Jenner
“I don’t want to be a bad role model.” – Kylie Jenner
“I’ve been bullied my whole life, whether it was by my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I’ve kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory. ” – Kylie Jenner
“I do everything I want to do.” – Kylie Jenner
“I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don’t need it to live.” – Kylie Jenner
“I would want to hopefully start more businesses, and just be, like, a businesswoman.” – Kylie Jenner
“It’s about being who you are. If people can’t accept it, too bad.” – Kylie Jenner
“It’s always the people that know the least about you that want to judge you the most.” – Kylie Jenner
“If you’re different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that’s so dope.” – Kylie Jenner
“The more people who love you, the more there will be mean things said about you.” – Kylie Jenner
“I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that’s what I’ve always done.” – Kylie Jenner
“What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don’t really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it’s cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it’s amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I’m like, Oh, so I guess that wasn’t really happiness.” – Kylie Jenner
“I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.” – Kylie Jenner

Best quotes from Kendall Jenner

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1 day ago

10th December 2018

Victor Mochere

“I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.”
“If I could trade places with any of my sisters for a day, it would be Kim. I want to see what it’s like… The only time she sleeps is on the airplane. It’s just crazy. I feel bad for her, but I still want to know what it’s like.”
“I’m lucky that I’ve never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you – the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends – those are the people you should listen to.”
“It’s true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be ‘fixed’, like being shy is a bad thing.”
“My favorite thing about doing photo shoots is just being able to have fun, meeting new people, getting dressed up, and I just love doing it. So, I have a lot of fun.”
“Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That’s tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.”
“What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it’s not a nice feeling.”
“You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.”
“I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I’m not that big of a weirdo, but – occasionally.”
“I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad.”
“I try to keep my filters simple. I don’t do anything major to my photos.”
“I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, ‘Why am I lying to everybody?’ I would hear other people lie and be like, ‘You sound so stupid.’ So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.”
“If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don’t want to see that every day… Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!”
“I’m trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I’m on my own career path, and I don’t really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I’m just doing my own thing.”
“Modelling isn’t something I’m doing to prove people wrong. It’s something I’m doing because it’s what I want to do.”
“My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.”
“The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.”
“You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you’re ugly is the one that sticks.”
“I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it – but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural.”
“I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who’s a male, I’m not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.”
“I volunteered at Meals on Wheels, which is a place where you go and deliver healthy meals to people who are more homebound. I did that, and I had so much fun doing it, and I’m definitely planning on doing it again.”
“I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.”
“I’m a very loyal and very private person when it comes to my personal life. But I obviously do have Twitter and Instagram, and I will share some of the things I’m doing.”
“It’s just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can’t stop it.”
“My dad is my dad, but he’s not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her ‘Dad’ – that’s the last little piece of Dad I’ve got.”
“My style icon actually is my three sisters. I love the way they dress and the way they put things together. I definitely get most of my style from them.”
“There’s a lot of annoying things about me. I don’t know, I’m really shy at first, and I don’t really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.”
“You can’t take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.”

Top 10 most handsome black men in the world 2018

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1 week ago

1st December 2018

Victor Mochere

Top 10 most handsome black men in the world

If handsome is as handsome does, in this case handsome does very well indeed. These 10 people are not just smart and successfully, they’re physically attractive too. They come from different fields, and with the era of digital media, one will be forgiven to give a compliment or two for their astonishing looks. These black men come from different parts of the world and are not ranked but listed in a random order. So, what do you think?

1. Idris Elba

Idrissa Akuna Elba (born 6 September 1972) is an English actor, producer, musician and DJ known for playing drug trafficker Stringer Bell on the HBO series The Wire, DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one and was nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award.

In addition to his acting work, Elba is a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis (or Big Driis the Londoner) and a hip hop and soul musician. In 2016, he was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World.

2. Bruno Mars

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and dancer. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship and for performing in a wide range of musical styles including R&B, funk, pop, soul, reggae, hip hop and rock. Mars is accompanied by his band, The Hooligans, who play a variety of instruments such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums and horns, and also serve as backup singers and dancers.

Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. He has released seven number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since his career launched in 2010, attaining his first five faster than any male artist since Elvis Presley. Mars has received various awards and nominations, including 11 Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Guinness World Records and nine American Music Awards. He has appeared in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world (2011) and Forbes’ lists of lists of 30 under 30 (2013), the world’s most powerful celebrities (2014), and Celebrity 100 (2018).

3. Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (born April 5, 1973) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo comprise the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music. He is the lead vocalist of the band N*E*R*D, that he formed with Hugo and childhood friend, Shay Haley. He released his first solo single, “Frontin'”, in 2003 and followed up with his debut solo album, In My Mind, in 2006. His second album, Girl, was released in March 2014 and included the commercially successful single, “Happy”. As part of the Neptunes, Williams has produced numerous singles for various recording artists.

Williams has earned ten Grammy Awards including two with the Neptunes. He is also a two-time Academy Award nominee, receiving a 2014 Best Original Song nomination for “Happy” (which was featured in Despicable Me 2) and a 2017 Best Picture nomination as one of the producers of Hidden Figures. Williams owns i am OTHER, a multimedia creative collective that serves as an umbrella for all of Pharrell Williams’ endeavors, including Billionaire Boys Club.

4. Michael B. Jordan

Michael Bakari Jordan (born February 9, 1987) is an American actor. He is known for his film roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Adonis Creed in the Rocky sequel film Creed (2015) and main antagonist Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018), all three of which were directed by frequent collaborator Ryan Coogler.

Jordan’s television roles include Wallace in the HBO series The Wire (2002), Reggie Montgomery in the ABC series All My Children (2003–2006) and Vince Howard in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). His other film performances also include Maurice “Bumps” Wilson in Red Tails (2012), Steve Montgomery in Chronicle (2012), Mikey in That Awkward Moment (2014) and the Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2015).

5. Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1977) is an American actor known for his portrayals of real-life historical figures such as Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Up (2014) and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017) and for his portrayal of the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War (2016), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the upcoming Avengers 4 (2019). Boseman has also had roles in the television series Lincoln Heights (2008) and Persons Unknown (2010) and the films The Express (2008), Draft Day (2014) and Message from the King (2016).

6. Michael Ealy

Michael Brown (born August 3, 1973), professionally known as Michael Ealy, is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Barbershop (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Takers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), About Last Night (2014), Think Like a Man Too (2014), and The Perfect Guy (2015). Ealy starred as Dorian the android in the Fox TV science fiction police drama series Almost Human.

7. Morris Chestnut

Morris Chester Chestnut Jr. (born January 1, 1969) is an American actor. He first came to attention for his role in the 1991 film Boyz N The Hood. He has appeared in small feature films and on television series, including the starring role of pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. in the Fox TV series Rosewood.

8. Trey Songz

Tremaine Aldon Neverson (born November 28, 1984), known professionally as Trey Songz, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actor. His debut album, I Gotta Make It, was released in 2005 through Atlantic Records. His follow-up album, Trey Day, spawned his first top 20 single, “Can’t Help but Wait”. Songz released his third album Ready in 2009 and a single from the album, “Say Aah”, peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it Songz’s first top 10 hit. Ready was nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards. The following year saw Songz’s highest charting song to date, “Bottoms Up” featuring rapper Nicki Minaj from his fourth studio album, Passion, Pain & Pleasure.

In 2012, Songz released his first number one album, Chapter V, which debuted atop the Billboard 200. The album’s lead single titled “Heart Attack” was nominated for Best R&B Song at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Following that Songz released his sixth studio album, Trigga in 2014, promoted by the top 40 songs, “Na Na” and “Slow Motion”. He has sold over 25 million records worldwide in singles and albums.

9. Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is known for hosting The Daily Show, an American satirical news program on Comedy Central. His stand-up comedy career attained international success, leading to appearances on American late-night talk shows and British panel shows. In 2014, Noah became the Senior International Correspondent for The Daily Show, and the following year, he succeeded long-time host Jon Stewart and is set to remain in this position up until 2022.

Noah’s autobiographical comedy book Born a Crime was published in 2016 and garnered critical acclaim. Noah was named one of “The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media” by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

10. Marlon Wayans

Marlon Lamont Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988. He frequently collaborates with his brother Shawn Wayans, as he was on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. and in the comedic films Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, White Chicks, Little Man, and Dance Flick. However, Wayans had a dramatic role in Darren Aronofsky’s critically acclaimed Requiem for a Dream, which saw his departure from the usual comedies.

In 2016, Wayans wrote, produced and starred in Fifty Shades of Black. The film is a parody of the 2015 erotic romantic drama film Fifty Shades of Grey. In 2017, NBC gave him his own sitcom, Marlon, for a 10-episode run. In September 2017, Marlon got renewed by NBC for a second season which is now available on Netflix.