Kendrick Lamar Quotes
When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
