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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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of the first things I fell in love with before I learned about genres and before I knew what was cool to like.
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If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.
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I just want to make good music, and as long as I'm happy with it, the charting isn't that important to me. Although, the best feeling is having a song you're very happy with and also having it at Number One!
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I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.
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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.
