Kendrick Lamar Quotes

I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Real
  • Love

• The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Best
  • Try
  • Performance

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Home
  • Guy

• A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Business
  • She
  • Night

• You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Together
  • Attention
  • Band

• Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Excuses

• A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?

  

  Freddie Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God

• When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Up
  • Growing

• I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Good
  • Bridge