Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (Q-Tip) Quotes
Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.
Quotes to Explore
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I was a horrible student.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.
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I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right.
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Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.
