Talib Kweli Quotes
It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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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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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.
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I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
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It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.
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Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
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Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
