Kevin Gates Quotes
I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
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You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'
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I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
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I work out every day, and I eat 1,200 calories. Here's the truth - like I've said to everybody, 'Every diet works if you follow the diet.'
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It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.
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I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
