Talib Kweli Quotes
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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I have selective hearing.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
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How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
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I have to do this my way.
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Belize is not ready for self-government.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
