Top 100 Theophilus London Quotes
#2. I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, that's the homie. He can chill on the corner with me.
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#3. Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
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#9. I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.
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#10. I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.
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#11. I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.
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#13. I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.
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#14. Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
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#15. I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.
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#16. What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.
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#19. I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.
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#20. Let's see: I'm into a whole bunch of different people - Alexander Wang ... that's my dude.
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#21. Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.
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#23. Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.
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#24. I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.
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#25. You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.
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#26. I am more into guys' fashion, but I'm inspired by women's fashion in a weird way.
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#28. If I walk into a store, I'm going to buy the best jacket or the best item in the store, hands down.
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#29. I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.
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#30. I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.
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#31. I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there ... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.
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#32. Style is a form of expression! It's what makes your character your character, to put it in laymen's term.
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#33. I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.
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#34. Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
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#36. A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - it's more personal, and your friends generate it.
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#38. I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.
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#39. My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.
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#40. Brands are in your face 24/7; I'm sure you've consumed a couple brands today. So it's fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.
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#41. My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
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#42. I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.
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#44. Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.
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#45. I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.
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#46. I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
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#47. I've made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog ... making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.
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#48. Just because 50,000 people on the Internet know me, I'm not patting myself on the back at the end of the night.
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#49. Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.
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#50. I think it's more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.
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#51. I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.
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#52. Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.
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#53. I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
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#54. A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.
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#55. I moved my studio to Palm Springs 'cause I don't like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job ... I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house ... I don't want to be in a studio where people can hear the music 'cause I don't know what it is yet.
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#57. As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.
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#59. I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
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#60. I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.
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#61. When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
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#65. My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.
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#66. People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.
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#67. I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.
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#70. When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
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#71. I love N.Y.C.! I can't think of any individual that hates New York.
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#72. I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great.
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#73. I'm gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!
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#74. The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately it's starting to get a little saturated.
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#75. To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.
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#76. I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!
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#79. When I was younger, I wasn't thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know that's not what the average person does, but I've gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.
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#80. To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.
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#82. I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.
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#83. If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.
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#85. I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.
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#86. I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
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#87. There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we'd wild out to, get arrested to.
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#88. I'm a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?
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#90. I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].
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#91. I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.
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#92. Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.
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#93. While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.
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#94. I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.
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#95. The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.
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#96. It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.
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#97. I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.
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#98. When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.
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#99. After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.
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#100. DMX wasn't checking what his fans were saying to him on Twitter or Facebook. Jay-Z is on a boat in Saint-Tropez. I'm hands-on. Girls write to me like I'm their diary. That's a huge responsibility. I don't take it for granted.
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