Kevin Gates Quotes

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

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• I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Home
  • You
  • Body

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
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• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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  • Project

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Enemy

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
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• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
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  • Vanity

• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
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• In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Crazy
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• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
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  • Pretext

• I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

  Lake Bell
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• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Society
  • Picture

• I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Eyes
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• I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

  

  Liu Wen
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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  • Serious

• So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • World
  • Women

• I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • World
  • Different
  • Control