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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My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
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I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
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It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.
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I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.
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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.
