Talib Kweli Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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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.
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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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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.
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Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
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I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.
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This conspiracy needs a flow chart
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
