Talib Kweli Quotes
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
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When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.
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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
