Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.
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It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
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If you love me trueAnd if you love me trueI'll spend my life with youAnd TimerYou're a jigsaw, Timer
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A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
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Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
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And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.
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My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.
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Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.
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Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.
