Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I don't study; I create.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.
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For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
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We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.
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Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.
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I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
