Kanye West Quotes
I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'
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We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
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I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.
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I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
