"Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care."
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Kanye West quotes (page 14 of 25)
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"I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied."
"I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix."
"Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins."
"Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love."
"Fonts. I get emotional over fonts."
"I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator."
"I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding"
"Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back."
"I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it."
"One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone."
"The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous."
"I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish."
"I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice."
"I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it's like a blowfish. I wasn't coming out of my house going to a paparazzi's house to attack them. I'm defending my family in front of my own house. I'm defending my name as someone's screaming something negative at me. That's a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people."
"Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs"
"People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family."
"I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears."
"I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it."
"So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious."