Talib Kweli Quotes
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
