Talib Kweli Quotes
As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
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As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
