"To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way."

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Source : "K'Naan On Cheapening His Music For The Money". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 10, 2012.

K'naan

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“Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.”
“Will you marry me, Quinn O'Connor?”
“What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is already a class of people who think in this way. They are called mystics, and they say it is all God. Finally, a few scientists dared to say that some of the characteristics attributed to God are similar to what we describe as consciousness.”

Source : Daniel Pinchbeck (2014). “2012: The year of the Mayan prophecy”, p.182, Hachette UK
“I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.”
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

Source : "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.
“In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.”
“For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.”

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