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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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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Nowadays, there is a new trend that has started. Up to assembly election results, they were targeting Modi. Now it is very difficult for them to target Modi. So now you must have read so many articles, so many discussions on the TV: 'there's something wrong with the people of Gujarat'. This has the sic started!
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.
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The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
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If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.
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I don't know what to do with babies.
