Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.
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I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.
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Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
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There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
