Talib Kweli Quotes
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I have a great office.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
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I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.
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You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
