Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

Keinan Abdi Warsame

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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Help
  • Small
  • Support

• Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Ever

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Done
  • Character

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• ...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tree

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Popular

• I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Practice
  • Gym

• I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Comedy
  • Worry
  • Drama

• I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Good
  • Girl

• I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

  

  Jeffrey Pierce
  • Fun
  • Present
  • Christmas

• An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

  

  Kristan Higgins

• Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials.

  

  David Milch
  • Great
  • Different

• Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Strong
  • Training

• It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Remember
  • Happiness
  • Difficult

• A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame