Talib Kweli Quotes
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
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I love with the heart not the eyes.
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Gun violence is real. People don't come back.
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Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.
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If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot
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The simplest answer is to act.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
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Speaking of WAMU, bluegrass and old time music DJ Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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I feel so completely crazy sometimes. I don't know which way I'm facing. All I can do is just shove all this shit to the side and try to move forward.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
