Talib Kweli Quotes
So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I'm evangelical.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
