Kanye West Quotes
Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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Don't stop with your first draft.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
