Talib Kweli Quotes
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Justice is revenge.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
