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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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
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While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.
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When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
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You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
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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.
