Kanye West Quotes
Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
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Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.
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God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
