Kendrick Lamar Quotes
The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.
Quotes to Explore
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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There is more to life than show business.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
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Let's build a battery plant here.
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.
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Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.
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The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.
