Kendrick Lamar Quotes
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.
Quotes to Explore
-
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
-
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
-
I never pursued being 'famous.'
-
The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
-
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
-
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
-
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
-
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
-
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
-
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
-
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
-
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
-
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
-
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
-
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
-
I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
-
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
-
When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us.
-
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
-
If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.
-
This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
-
Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
-
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.
