Kendrick Lamar Quotes
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In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'
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Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
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I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
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Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
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As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
