Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.
Quotes to Explore
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
-
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
-
When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
-
I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
-
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
-
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
-
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
-
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
-
When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
-
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
-
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
-
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
-
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
-
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
-
Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
-
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
-
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
-
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
-
No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.
-
When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.
