Baratunde Thurston Quotes

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

Baratunde Thurston

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• For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

  

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• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  

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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

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• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  

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• The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
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• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

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• To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

  

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• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

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• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

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  • Obscure

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

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• It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

  

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• I want to be up front racing.

  

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• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

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• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  

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• In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

  

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• The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.

  

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• Jämmerlich ist freilich jene praktische Philosophie der Franzosen und Engländer, von denen man meint, sie wüßten so gut, was der Mensch sei, unerachtet sie nicht darüber spekulierten, was er sein solle.

  

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• There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • World
  • Attention
  • Pay