Kendrick Lamar Quotes
My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
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I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.
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If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.
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I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
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My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
