#being

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard. ↗

— Jay-Z

#damn #far #god #hard #i

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. ↗

— Jay-Z

#ali #being #bright #brighter #day

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. ↗

— Jay-Z

#anything #being #burden #day #embarrassed

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#being #long #mouth #questions #solved

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina. ↗

— Karen Kain

#ballerina #being #fun #going #grow

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#begin #being #building #designed #end

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#being #correcting #day #earliest #first

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#areas #around #beautifully #beginning #being

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#art #artist #being #game #hope

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast! ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#beans #being #buy #me #toast