Lupe Fiasco Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

People aren't always what you want them to be

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then, later on, I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all. When you have the ability to live that life, to some extent you find out that they don't have any magic cure for everything.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.