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.
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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.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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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.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
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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.
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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.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.
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I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
