Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you're working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you're motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early '90's, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.
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I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.
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It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain.
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I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
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To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
