Talib Kweli Quotes

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Minimum Wage

• There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Question
  • Moral

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Women
  • Management
  • Forward

• Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Give
  • Warm
  • Spicy

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Fate
  • Go

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Fashion

• You know, I love acting.

  

  Anne Archer

• I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

  

  William Blake
  • Love
  • Divine
  • Mutual

• The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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