Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.Keinan Abdi Warsame
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
Daisy Donovan -
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
Barry Diller -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
H. R. McMaster
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart -
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
J. J. Watt -
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Fatos Nano -
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Larry Wilmore -
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
Wendy Kopp
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly -
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall -
We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.
Angela Ahrendts -
It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
Alan Yang -
I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
Don Baylor -
I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
Duncan Jones -
It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.
Keinan Abdi Warsame