Usher Quotes

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Usher

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 14, 1978

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

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In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff.

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I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.

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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

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The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

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I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.

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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

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I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

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These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.

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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

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