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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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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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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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 don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
