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K'naan Quotes

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

K'naan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Darkness Anger People Moments

I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.

Jill Kargman

Everyone Tell Up Room Double Floor

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Jo Brand

Love Future Book Think You Look

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

Jesse Eisenberg

Late Say Actor Way Up Something

America always recovers.

John Catsimatidis

America Always Recovers

We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.

Maxine Waters

Hope Earned Because Should Ours

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Matt Taibbi

Wall Now Street Crime Individual

I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that's surprising to me.

Matthew Walker

Good Today Health Job Sleep Me

I don't really like watching 3-D.

Roger Deakins

Watching Like Really

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

Robin Weigert

Good Television Poker Pretty Piano

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

Michael Smith

America Year Now Over Years Planet

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Standards Absence Made Which Appeal

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Don King

Quality Performance You Go Longevity