Talib Kweli Quotes
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I love acting.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
