Kanye West Quotes

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Kids
  • Together

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happiness
  • Cause
  • Others

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Love
  • Beach
  • Walks

• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Word
  • Verb

• My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Father
  • Moment

• I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Lose

• I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Love
  • City
  • Moving

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

  

  Maria Semple
  • People
  • Time

• It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

  

  Kanye West
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