Kanye West Quotes
Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
