Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

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• It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

  

  Dan Barber
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• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

  

  Nancy Kress
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• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

  Halima Aden
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• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
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• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  

  Adam Baldwin
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• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
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• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
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• The world is in motion, as it seems.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

  

  Curtis Hanson
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• The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

  

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• No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

  

  Jonathan Raban

• Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

  

  Kyle Chandler
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• I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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