Rupi Kaur Quotes

When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to create... we're groomed to be reckless in the defense of what we feel is right.

Rupi Kaur

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: October 5, 1992

Topics

MeFeelTraditionCreateRight

I do have trouble with titles.

Jim Harrison

TroubleTitles

Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.

Joan Rivers

JobNightDoingActingSayLine

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Maya Lin

ArtSocietyArtistRoleEvery

A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler

GoodMusicRelationshipPerformance

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Maurice Gibb

AloneTogetherSongYouWriteHard

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

Michael Carbonaro

MistakeSayMeanReallyIncarnation

I don't think that anyone in the pages of 'War on Peace' is arguing that diplomacy is the replacement for military power. But, correctly, the job of the military is to think tactically.

Ronan Farrow

PowerJobPeaceWarThinkMilitary

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Rush Limbaugh

I AmMeYouWrongWantNothing

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Mary Wortley Montagu

ManWillFortuneMakeModestDid

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Michael Korda

SuccessPowerChildhoodPeopleKind

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

FatherDreamsTimeMindPolitical

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

Diplo

WeirdEverythingRapBecauseRecords

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