Talib Kweli Quotes
If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
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I have still not decided who will start yet. We will have a look at how players react in training tomorrow and then I'll have a better idea.
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If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.
