Kendrick Lamar Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.
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I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
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I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.
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People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.
