Kendrick Lamar Quotes
Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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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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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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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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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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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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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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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I work out once a day - it's built into my ethos.
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If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.
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I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
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Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
