Talib Kweli Quotes

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

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• I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

  

  Earl Butz
  • People
  • Challenged
  • Lots

• Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Child
  • Meeting

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Model
  • inspirational

• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  

  Malcolm X
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  • American
  • America

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
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• I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Inspiration

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
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  • Way
  • Lives

• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Ideas

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • World
  • God

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
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  • America

• It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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• Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
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  • End

• When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Mind
  • Sexy

• When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • People
  • You
  • Judge

• When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• The original title was 'Waking Up Diagonal'. It's the first line of the song. I just thought it was more interesting than 'I Don't Care', which is such a boring title to me. When I hear that song, it breaks my heart a little bit because it's my story.

  

  Bonnie McKee
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  • Heart
  • Song

• I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

  

  Anita Shreve
  • Up
  • History
  • Wonder

• Even when I was young, with a limited amount of money and exposure, I tried to look my best. I like to follow trends and stand out. I have always had that fashion sense. But with the time, age, money, and experience, I have made a conscious effort to stand out.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

  

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