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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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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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.
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I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
