Baratunde Thurston Quotes
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'
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I have to do this my way.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
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Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
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I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.
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I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
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Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.
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My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.
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As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
