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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I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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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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I grew up Catholic, and I am a pretty shy person.
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Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.
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What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
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Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.
