Talib Kweli Quotes
If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
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I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
