Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.
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I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.
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While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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During the next couple weeks, I'll be getting the site prepared. It should go up by early summer.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
