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.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Say
  • Pressure

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Senior

• My dad was so much fun growing up.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Growing

• If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Want
  • You
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • Trying
  • May

• I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Career
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • History
  • Think

• I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Need
  • Say
  • Outdoors

• 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.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Shopping
  • Silent

• If you love me trueAnd if you love me trueI'll spend my life with youAnd TimerYou're a jigsaw, Timer

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Life

• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Long

• Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People

• Style is timeless. It transcends generations - it's enduring. If you're thinking about fashion, it's of the moment. And that doesn't mean that it's not important at times to embrace trends and that type of thing, but style is less about trends than it is about how you carry yourself.

  

  John Varvatos
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Trends

• I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Children

• You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Persons

• I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Great
  • Daughter
  • Grandson

• Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.

  

  Khalid