Talib Kweli Quotes
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I just love music, and I love what music does for people.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
