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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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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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
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The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.
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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
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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.
