Talib Kweli Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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The climax of absurdity to which the art may be carried, when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... His landscape, of which he was evidently fond, is pastoral; and such pastorality! the pastoral of the Opera house.
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I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
