Talib Kweli Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Young people should be given good support and freedom in their research. They are the greatest source of scientific creativity because they are not as committed to existing scientific orthodoxy, and they have the energy and enthusiasm to push new ideas.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.
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Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither
