Kanye West Quotes
Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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My health is fine.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.
