Talib Kweli Quotes
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
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President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
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I'm an energetic person. I work hard.
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Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
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You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.
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When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.
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The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
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A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
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The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it
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Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
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We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
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We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love
