Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
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How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
