Talib Kweli Quotes

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Nature
  • English
  • View

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Unhappy

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Head
  • Medical

• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Man
  • Nothing

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Man
  • Party
  • Myself

• When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Man
  • You
  • Option

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Earned

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Food
  • Ship

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • War
  • Death
  • Law

• Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Career
  • Never
  • Look

• Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

  

  Bill Struth
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Philosophy

• When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Look
  • Just
  • Pie

• I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • War
  • Nature
  • Man