Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
-
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
-
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
-
I can paint in jail.
-
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
-
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
-
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
-
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
-
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
-
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
-
I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
-
I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.
-
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
-
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
-
We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing... We use one word for both because, at a certain scale, we haven't been able to get organization without organizations; the former seems to imply the latter.
-
I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
-
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
-
In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.
-
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
-
You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.
