Talib Kweli Quotes

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

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• I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

  

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

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• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

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• I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

  

  Ted Danson
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• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

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• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

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• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
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• For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

  

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• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

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• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

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  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • You
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• I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
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• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

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• I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

  

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• I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

  

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• You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.

  

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• I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me.

  

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• I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

  

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• The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

  

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• Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

  

  Wilson Pickett
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• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
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• Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Rap