Talib Kweli Quotes
I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
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Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
