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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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

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• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  

  Daniel Dennett
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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
  • Great
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• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  

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

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Leadership

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

  

  Oliver Tambo
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  • Soviet

• 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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  • Constitution
  • Short
  • 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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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

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• Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

  

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• Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

  

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• The true artist can only labor con amore.

  

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• One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

  

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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