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Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era. -- Big Sean
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. -- Gene Ween
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself. -- Rock Hudson
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him. -- Scott Anderson
Notorious sinners didn't kill Jesus. Religious people did. -- Judah Smith
Notorious is a masterwork. I can watch it every day. -- Bellamy Young
I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been. -- Lola Montez
In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B. -- Bobby Moynihan
My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies. -- Ace Hood
Even looking at my last film, 'Notorious,' you got a perception about B.I.G. and who he was, but there was a different side to him. -- George Tillman, Jr.
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious. -- Clive James
It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world. -- Cornelia Funke
I remember Zachary Quinto were just about to go and do So Notorious on VH1, and I was super unemployed, and I think we spent a lot of time talking about how we weren't particularly happy. -- Zachary Quinto
My name got kind of hot as a D.J. around town; on the north side of town, they had 'D.J. Juicy J.' That's what I called myself: 'The Notorious D.J. Juicy J.' -- Juicy J
I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious ]. -- Zachary Quinto
I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile. -- William Butler Yeats
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious. -- Grimes
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. -- Robert Breault
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. -- J. Paul Getty
I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton. -- Mandy Rice-Davies
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. -- Rumi
Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves. -- Seth MacFarlane
Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. -- Prince Philip
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work. -- Gregory David Roberts
I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances. -- Arthur Phillips
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories. -- Rachel Hunter
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth. -- Periander
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. -- Rob Delaney
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be. -- Michel Houellebecq
Live events are notorious for being pressure free. Stress free. It's all about just doing the match. Doing what you feel. -- Chris Jericho
Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time. -- Paul Allen
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. -- Saadi
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' -- Joyce Carol Oates
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government. -- Kevin Mitnick
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious. -- Frank Stella
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things. -- Carl Jung
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. -- Margaret Chan
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad. -- Rumi
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides. -- Erich Fromm
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. -- Timothy Noah
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight. -- John Lahr
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace. -- George Whitefield
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action. -- Francis Chan
This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people. -- Ai Weiwei
There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it. -- Hoodie Allen
How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared. -- Caryl Chessman
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. -- Karl Rove
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient. -- Gore Vidal
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk. -- Joel Fuhrman
And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one. -- Ashley Judd
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity. -- Edmund Ruffin
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that. -- Faith Evans
Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth. -- Gretchen Rubin
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I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' -- Stephen Hunter
Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious Thug ass niggaz that love to bust, it's strange to us Y'all niggaz be scramblin, gamblin Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin High off weed and lots of gin So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Martin Luther King is a notorious liar[] -- John G. Schmitz
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. -- Robert Pinsky
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The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious. -- John Harvey Kellogg
Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes. -- Karla Cheatham Mosley
If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious. -- Mahathir Mohamad
Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. -- Kerry Cohen
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. -- J. Paul Getty
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. -- Oscar Wilde
The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages. -- David Rolf
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters. -- Caroline Sunshine
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so. -- Erik Satie
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. -- James Kern Feibleman
The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws. -- John Dingell
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. -- Alain de Botton
I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. -- Francine Mathews
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. -- Jodi Picoult
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes. -- Mona Charen
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters. -- Euripides
Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles. -- Kit Harington
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement. -- Josie Maran
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. -- Thomas de Quincey
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. -- Joseph Addison
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything. -- Gloria Steinem
[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men. -- Teddy Wilson
Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children. -- Laura Schlessinger
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party -- Joseph Addison
Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight. -- Tom Graves
Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying. -- Om Puri
In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'. -- Paul Johnson
[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment. -- Michael Phelps
I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel. -- Sally Field
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. -- Pamela Erens
Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live. -- Jennifer Harrison
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears. -- Eric Linklater
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. -- Joseph Addison
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. -- Molly Ivins
These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California. -- Alan Watts
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] -- Thurgood Marshall
Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation. -- Selma James
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor. -- David Eddings
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare. -- Amos Elon
When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living. -- Plutarch

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