Kendrick Lamar Quotes
The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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I grow old on my bitterness.
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If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.
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The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.
