Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) Quotes
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
J. G. Ballard -
I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
Ralph Boston -
I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
Warren Christie -
My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
Larry Page -
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Jack Levine -
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
Ed Miliband -
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
Gary Johnson -
I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
Omari Hardwick -
I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
Kate Beckinsale -
I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
Barry Bonds
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
Gayle Gardner -
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
Jack McBrayer -
When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
Natasha Trethewey
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Wally Lamb -
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
Yoko Ono -
My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
Sam Brownback -
No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
Zooey Deschanel -
We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
Laura Innes -
Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
Tariq Trotter