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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I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Nina was always loved. Maybe that’s a bad thing. It gives people that terrible confidence that the world is going to give them the chance to fulfill themselves.
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I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.
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I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
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Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.
