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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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 get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German descent.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.
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One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
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I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.
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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.
