Talib Kweli Quotes
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
