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Kanye West
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: June 8
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Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.
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I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.
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I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”
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I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.
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I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.
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People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?
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You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.
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I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.
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She said, 'Ye can we get married at the mall? I said, Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all.
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I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.
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I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.
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Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem.
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I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.
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When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
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I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.
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I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.
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People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.
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