Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.
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Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.
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Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
