Talib Kweli Quotes

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

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• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey

• Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Death
  • Always

• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Career
  • Freedom

• For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Crazy

• Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Experience

• There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.

  

  Mark Consuelos

• Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

  

  Ana Ivanovic

• Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • God
  • Family
  • Car

• We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.

  

  James Lapine
  • Live
  • Trying

• Again and again the imaginary plan on which one attempts to build up that order breaks down and then we must try another. This imaginative vision and faith in the ultimate success are indispensable. The pure rationalist has no place here.

  

  Max Planck
  • Up
  • Success
  • Faith

• When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Real
  • School
  • Usc

• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Job
  • Girl

• Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Want
  • Friend
  • Decision

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Today
  • Black
  • Philosophy

• I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Work
  • Voice
  • Internally

• When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

  

  David Guterson
  • Writing
  • College

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Business
  • Single
  • inspirational

• I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

  

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