Talib Kweli Quotes
Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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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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Taking care of yourself is so important.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestions for the show itself, which is amazing because it makes you realize the show's really struck a chord and found its audience.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
