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.

Edmund Phelps
- Desire
- Space
- Innovation
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.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- People
- Up
- Work
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Taylor Wilson
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.

D. B. Sweeney
- Black
- Know
- White
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

Barry Diller
- Man
- Law
- Couple
Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson
- Fun
- Loss
- Teammates