Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
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You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
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People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
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I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.
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I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"
