Talib Kweli Quotes

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

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• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  

  Ovid
  • Death
  • Bitter
  • Less

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Country
  • Society
  • Violence

• You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Life
  • Think
  • Future

• Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • Death
  • Parents

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Good
  • God
  • Love

• A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Star

• I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Bird

• I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Boy
  • Start
  • Loved

• What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Truth
  • Running

• This is very serious. We're going to stand behind the resolution of this problem as a town.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Problem
  • Stand
  • Resolution

• Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Terrible

• This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Free
  • Slavery

• The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Problem
  • Christian
  • Feminist