Talib Kweli Quotes
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
