Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
-
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.
-
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
-
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.
-
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
-
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
-
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
-
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.
-
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
-
I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
-
I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
-
I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
-
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
-
Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
-
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
-
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
-
I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.
-
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.
-
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
-
Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
