"I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness."
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"I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh."
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"I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool."
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"People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all."
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"If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best."
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"So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh."
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"I've been saying how I feel at the wrong time."
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"This dark diction has become America's addiction."
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"Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don’t know any personally."
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"My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people."
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"Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write."
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"Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most."
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"It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most."
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"I had a dream I can buy my way to heaven."
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"I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying."
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"The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build."
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"All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has."
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"Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that."
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"I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."
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"If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them."
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