Talib Kweli Quotes

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Courage

• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • World
  • Long
  • Me

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I don't watch TV.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Watch
  • TV

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Kind

• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Stupidity
  • Optimism

• The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Real
  • Law
  • Corruption

• Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Beauty

• I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Better

• I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Boss

• There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Different
  • Business
  • Hope

• I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Time
  • World
  • Stop

• You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Risk

• People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Political
  • Religious

• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  

  Confucius
  • Mistakes
  • Ashamed
  • Crimes

• I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

  

  Ruth Negga

• My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

  

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