Kendrick Lamar Quotes
In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.
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The Army's always had a special place in my heart.
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There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.
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I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
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I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.
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In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
