Kanye West Quotes
A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: "teaching" God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting.
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A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
