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" I love sleep; it's my favorite. "
Kanye West
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" I have decided in 2020 to run for president. "
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" The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' "
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" I am not a fan of books. "
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" Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun. "
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" If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed. "
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Game
Life
" They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? "
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God
Say
" I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever. "
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Whatever
Win
Year
" I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone. "
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Everyone
Just
I Can
" I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14. "
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School
Time
Chicago
" I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things. "
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Writing
" In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. "
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Money
Past
Cool
" It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition. "
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Fruition
You
Will
" I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. "
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Say
Need
School
" I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. "
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Even
Apartment
Listen
" I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying. "
Kanye West
Say
Enjoy
Joke
" People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. "
Kanye West
Try
Say
People
" All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. "
Kanye West
Racism
Legacy
Family
" I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised. "
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Business
Artist
Think
" I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel. "
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Right
Say
Way
" I know I got angels watchin me from the other side. "
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Know
Side
Angels
" If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep. "
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Sheep
Look
Humble
" The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses. "
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Other
Genius
Create
" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "
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Accept
People
Me
" My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened. "
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Man
Walk
Me
" I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible. "
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Want
Best
Just
" 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. "
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Me
Hurt
Shark
" Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions. "
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Got
Lot
Opinion
" There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead. "
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Will
Everyone
Down
" If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. "
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Fan
World
Think
" Fashion breaks my heart. "
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Heart
Fashion
Breaks