K'naan Quotes

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

K'naan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: somali
  • Birth: February 1, 1978

Topics

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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Andrew Weil

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We should care about what is going on in the world.

John Legend

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I'm a New Yorker, and I'm a fighter.

Jeanine Pirro

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I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Michael Douglas

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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

John Piper

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I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

Amelia Warner

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I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.

Rudolph Valentino

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Fashion is a way you can express yourself, so it's good stuff, you know?

Lucky Blue Smith

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I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the government, in the White House, and at the State Department.

Dina Powell

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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.

Denis Leary

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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

Doug E. Fresh

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In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

Chuck Yeager

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