Kenan Thompson Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's style.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?
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I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!
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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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I don't know what to do with babies.
