K'naan Quotes

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

K'naan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.

Joe Gilgun

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When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Joan Blades

ResponsibilitySupportYouValues

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

Jello Biafra

SchoolCityAttentionImportant

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

Andy Cohen

DailyInternetFishFindNewsTrue

I alternate between a few scents. I love 'Oribe Cote d'Azur Eau de Parfum' and both the 'Wild Bluebell' and 'Wood Sage & Sea Salt Colognes' by Jo Malone.

Meghan Markle

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I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.

John Lasseter

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I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

Roger Taylor

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The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

Julia Roberts

CalmEnergyKindAttractVery

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

Jarvis Cocker

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I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

DeMar DeRozan

SpaceYouPersonalMy OwnWhatever

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

LifeMeetNoneFewHonestly

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

Anthony Carmona

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