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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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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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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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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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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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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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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In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
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The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the Act, Congress is to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget by April 15.
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Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.
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I don't know what to do with babies.
