Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
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Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
