Kanye West Quotes

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Relationship
  • Best
  • Healthy

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Pretty
  • Space
  • Walk

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Pretty
  • Everyone
  • Whiskey

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Real
  • Heart

• Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Police

• Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Science

• I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Responsibility