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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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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.
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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.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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I drove a brand new Lamborghini, the Huracan; it was great. We went on the Autobahn, and we got to drive on the Nurburgring.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
