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.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Believe
  • Positive

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• 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?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Why
  • You

• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Look

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Try

• I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• 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.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • For Him
  • Kill

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Body
  • Voice

• I was surrounded by women and all I would hear is of them complaining about their shoes. Back then, 'comfort' was a dirty word in fashion footwear. This was before fur loafers or sneakers. So, I wanted to create a shoe that was like slipping your foot into a glove - something beautiful, feminine, and sexy at the same time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Time
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Pearl Harbor? Michael Bay doing a movie about the single most devastating, most holy day in United States military history? Why, that's like the Three Stooges doing a Holocaust movie. Or Barney doing 'Hamlet'.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Why
  • History
  • Movie

• I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better