Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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I love the Broncos for helping me out, but it's a business, and that's how I feel about it.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.
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You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
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When it's good it's great, it's really great.
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I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.
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They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.
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Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
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Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.
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When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time.
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It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
