Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.Keinan Abdi Warsame
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
Hailey Gates -
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
Oscar Pistorius -
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
Dana Plato -
I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
Oscar Isaac -
Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
Magic Johnson -
I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
Adam Baldwin
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
Hannibal Buress -
Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
Park Geun-hye -
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
J. J. Abrams -
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
Rachel Kushner
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot -
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
Veronica Roth -
Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
Camilla Luddington -
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
Valerie June -
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
Katee Sackhoff -
Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
Colin Trevorrow -
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
Buffalo Bill -
I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
Cristina Henriquez -
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
Keinan Abdi Warsame